Common use of CMRRA Direct Clause in Contracts

CMRRA Direct. Publisher hereby agrees to register with CMRRA for CMRRA Direct, in accordance with the CMRRA Direct Terms of Use. S chedule ‘C’: Online Music Distribution and Webcasting The pace of change keeps getting faster and is nowhere more apparent than in the online world. Tens of millions of songs are being downloaded and streamed every year from a growing number of sources. Each time a song is streamed or downloaded, whether to a home computer or a portable device, a permanent or temporary copy of that song is created. And just like the reproduction of musical works on physical copies, the copyright owner is entitled to royalties for these digital reproductions. Because most online music services offer a large variety of songs and recordings, they often cannot license each musical work before offering it for sale on their site. In addition, the licensing of such a large quantity of works cannot be done effectively from multiple sources. In order to streamline their operation, the online music services look to CMRRA to obtain licences for the largest number of musical works possible at a standard royalty rate. If you want your songs to be licensed for online distribution in Canada, we urge you to sign up with CMRRA. CMRRA is here to license these uses and collect royalties generated from the ever-growing popularity of online music distribution. For further information on the royalty rates applicable in Canada for online music distribution, please visit CSI’s website at xxx.xxxxx.xx.

CMRRA Direct. Publisher hereby agrees to register with CMRRA for CMRRA Direct, in accordance with the CMRRA Direct Terms of Use. S chedule ‘C’: Online Music Distribution and Webcasting The pace of change keeps getting faster and is nowhere more apparent than in the online world. Tens of millions of songs are being downloaded and streamed every year from a growing number of sources. Each time a song is streamed or downloaded, whether to a home computer or a portable device, a permanent or temporary copy of that song is created. And just like the reproduction of musical works on physical copies, the copyright owner is entitled to royalties for these digital reproductions. Because most online music services offer a large variety of songs and recordings, they often cannot license each musical work before offering it for sale on their site. In addition, the licensing of such a large quantity of works cannot be done effectively from multiple sources. In order to streamline their operation, the online music services look to CMRRA to obtain licences for the largest number of musical works possible at a standard royalty rate. For this reason, CMRRA, together with SODRAC (Société du droit de reproduction des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs au Canada), jointly license their repertoires to the online music services under the umbrella of CMRRA-SODRAC Inc. (CSI). If you want your songs to be licensed for online distribution in Canada, we urge you to sign up with CMRRA. CMRRA is here to license these uses through CSI, and collect royalties generated from the ever-growing popularity of online music distribution. For further information on the royalty rates applicable in Canada for online music distribution, please visit CSI’s website at xxx.xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.