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The Canadian music industry continues to rally around the Unison Benevolent Fund in impressive fashion. A fine example is last week’s fundraising concert by music rights organisation Re:Sound. Their fourth annual event, it attracted a packed house to Revival in Toronto. This year’s event was titled “Re:Wind – Pop Through the Decades,” and a press release […]
Read MoreToday at the 18th SF MusicTech conference Core Rights announced a key partnership with SOCAN and Re:Sound to build for Canada the first country-wide digital marketplace for licensing music rights. In addition Core Rights and Soundstr announced a strategic partnership for building out the new digital marketplace platform for music licensing.
Read MoreBetter usage of data and the formation of a single-repertoire database by collection societies CONNECT Music Licensing and Re:Sound Music Licensing has resulted in an additional $2 million CAD ($1.5M USD) in royalties for Canadian music labels. “In an environment of reduced sales of music and scrutiny of every single penny of potential earnings, we are thrilled that this […]
Read MoreThere’s a bundle of new money on the table thanks to a collaborative effort between two rights agencies to streamline back-end operations and enhance data collections. Canadian music labels (businesses that range in size from major labels to artist-owned imprints) this week began receiving an additional $2 million in accelerated and additional royalty distributions through […]
Read MoreA new level of efficiency in royalty distribution, in keeping with international standards, is announced today with CONNECT Music Licensing’s decision to have their nearly 2,700 members receive their public performance and private copying royalties directly from Re:Sound. Re:Sound has been collecting and administering public performance and private copying royalties for musicians and record labels […]
Read MoreOn March 31st, 2016, we gave a presentation on the music copyright ecosystem to the Trebas Music School students. Topics discussed included different types of rights, collectives, the role of licensing, Tariff 8 and more.
Read MoreOn November 27th, 2015, we presented Re:Sound’s role within the music industry and our operations to Algonquin College’s Music Business students. Topics discussed involve how royalties are collected and distributed, the value of music, and how copyright applies to artists’ various works.
Read MoreOn November 24th, 2015, we presented Re:Sound’s role within the music industry and our operations to the Artist Management Program run by Coalition Music. Topics discussed involve how royalties are collected and distributed, the value of music, and how copyright applies to artists’ various works.
Read MoreRe:Sound was pleased to host a political panel featuring Toronto Candidates Chris Tolley (Green), Jennifer Hollett (NDP), Adam Vaughan (Liberal) and Sabrina Zuniga (Conservative), on October 6th, 2015. The event allowed Re:Sound employees and employees from other music industry organisations, to get to know the candidates and the platforms that they are representing. Lively debate […]
Read MoreOn September 24th, 2015, Re:Sound threw a charity fundraiser for The Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund (CMTTF). We invited music industry organisations to perform Canadian hits to a packed crowd. Participating organisations included the CMRRA and SOCAN. In total we raised $10 000 for the CMTTF. Find out more here.
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