*This article was published in FYI Music News on September 10, 2015 and is reproduced here with the permission of the writer, David Farrell. Robert Ott isn’t exactly a household name at home in Canada but over the past eleven years he has quietly built a global empire out of Toronto, transforming a music publishing start-up […]

CMRRA wishes to congratulate Re:Sound MLC on holding its third annual Re:Cital on September 24. It is a pleasure to have been part of this great event that raised $10,000 for the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund. Our very own house band, made up of CMRRA staff and appropriately named Royality Cheque, along with bands […]

Important: New CMRRA Royalty Statement Format and Reports Coming in 2016 A new electronic royalty statement format will be launched in CMRRA Direct in March 2016. This new format will provide enhanced details on payments, works metadata and sound recording metadata, and will provide a single statement format for all royalty sources processed in our […]

This month, we sat down with Caroline Rioux and asked her some questions. Read her thoughts and comments below. Q: October will mark the two year anniversary of your appointment as President. Congratulations! What are the highlights of those first two years? A: It’s been a formidable two years for CMRRA and for me as […]

By Martin Melhuish (adapted from an article in Music Publisher Canada – Winter 2015 edition) Let me introduce you to Margaret McGuffin who joined the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) in the newly-created executive position of Vice President, Strategy & Business Development in the fall of last year. Before joining CMRRA, Margaret was the […]

CMRRA is excited to launch its new CMRRA Direct application over the next couple of weeks! CMRRA Direct is the portal through which our clients are able to access their work, licence and royalty data, and we are re-launching this tool with new and enhanced features that will link directly to our new LDS system. […]

CMRRA is thrilled to extend a warm welcome to the staff of Access Copyright following their move to our premises in late August. We’re extremely pleased to have this opportunity to share our workspace with this collective, along with CPCC and CMPA, and we’re looking forward to the new dynamic that will form from working […]

CMRRA is pleased to congratulate Robert Ott, co-founder, Chairman & CEO of ole and CMRRA Board Member, on receiving the 2015 Leonard T. Rambeau International Award! This CCMA Award of Achievement recognizes an individual who has demonstrated extraordinary effort in assisting the aims and initiatives of the Canadian country music industry internationally. Read the CCMA […]

CMRRA is pleased to announce the following staff promotions effective as of May 1. Sandra Nettleton – Director, Licensing and Royalties It is with great pleasure that we are able to recognize the efforts and dedication of Sandra with this promotion to the position of Director. Sandra is one of our most tenured employees, having […]