CMRRA

Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency

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What is the Income Summary by Publisher report (previously Publisher Summary)?

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The Income Summary by Publisher report identifies the complete list of payable amounts for each of your Publisher accounts. Where more than one payment source, or Pool/Licensee, is included within a distribution, the Publisher Summary will indicate a breakdown of the amounts for each Pool/Licensee and Payee, along with an overall total for the related […]

What if I can’t find my statements?

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If a payment has been issued to you there should be corresponding statement details. If you can’t locate your statement details please contact our Royalty Department.

Why are there no statement details when I open my statement file?

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If you open a statement  file with no details, this is related to a distribution for which you did not receive payment. For example, if you did not sign the RUA form for the last Broadcast Mechanical distribution for Commercial Radio royalties, a payment was not issued and therefore statement details were not generated.

What if my statement doesn’t balance to my payment?

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Please refer to the Payment Summary report to assist you with balancing the statement amounts to your payment.  Royalty statement amounts are always verified against your payment amount before payment is issued, but if you encounter a balancing issue please contact our Royalty Department for further assistance.

Why is there a different rate for some details in my Broadcast Mechanical statements?

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Generally, there is one rate applicable to all works in the Broadcast Mechanical statements. This is the result of the calculation that divides the amount of royalties available for the distribution by the total number of plays within the set of works included within that distribution. The rate can vary in cases where there is […]

How are the records grouped together in the CSV statement files?

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Within each file, the rows of data are grouped together in the following way:  1. By Distribution Type and Pool/Licensee; 2. By Publisher Number; 3. By Source Proprietary Work Number. For more detail on this, please refer to the Layout and User Guide for the new CMRRA Electronic Royalty Statement Format. To request a copy […]

When will CMRRA begin to issue mechanical licences for other labels via LDS?

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Work has been done to support licensing in LDS of independent labels who have signed CMRRA’s Mechanical Licensing Agreement (MLA). We will begin to issue licences via LDS to these labels by the Fall of 2015. Licensing of Pay-as-you-press manufacturers in LDS requires additional development work that is scheduled for early 2016, following the conversion […]

I have located my Work, and while there is information contained in the License Responses grid, when I click the View option to see the associated Licence Details, the details do not appear. Why?

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There are several reasons why Licence Details may not exist. Below is a list of possible scenarios, where in all cases the work in question has been matched to a track on the release in question, but no licences have been issued: InHouse and Direct Licence situations – If there is an in-house licensing relationship […]