{"id":6122,"date":"2016-07-18T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/07\/18\/increased-royalties-for-canadians\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:21:09","slug":"increased-royalties-for-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/07\/18\/increased-royalties-for-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased Royalties For Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d9\/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg\/1000px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"216\" height=\"108\" \/><br \/>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 an efficiency and data improvement project by  CONNECT Music Licensing and Re:Sound Music Licensing, while other rights  holders in Canada will enjoy benefits from a spin-off effect.  <!--more-->  <br \/> &#8220;In an environment of reduced sales of music and scrutiny of every  single penny of potential earnings, we are thrilled that this project  has increased the royalties for our rights holders by millions of  dollars,&#8221; says Graham Henderson, President of CONNECT Music Licensing.  &#8220;We strive for efficiency, transparency and innovation, and together  with our partner, Re:Sound, are proudly leading efforts to increase the  efficiency of collective licensing in Canada and put more money directly  in the pockets of rights holders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The improved efficiencies reflect a 28% decrease in administration  costs, or $1.2 million annually, which will be paid out in additional  royalties to the 2,700 members of CONNECT. This is the result of a June  16, 2016, announcement that rights holders represented by CONNECT would  start receiving their neighbouring rights and private copying royalties  directly from Re:Sound, the not-for-profit organisation mandated under  the Copyright Act to collect these royalty streams. The move also  accelerates royalty distributions.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, a significant investment in new technology by CONNECT,  significant improvements to data streams from CONNECT&#8217;s member labels,  and work by CONNECT and Re:Sound to exhaustively analyze and synchronize  each organization&#8217;s data in order to create a single repertoire  database, have resulted in added royalties for CONNECT members as well  as other rights holders in Canada. Specifically, these measures have  freed up an additional $1 million in royalties for labels. CONNECT&#8217;s  members have already begun to see the benefits in royalty payments  issued this week. As a spin-off benefit, another $1 million in royalties  are available for distribution to performers signed up through  Re:Sound&#8217;s member organisations ACTRA, MROC and ARTISTI. These gains  extend to rights holders in every province.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The increased royalties are particularly notable as they result from  our drive to improve royalty collection in line with international best  practices, as opposed to adding revenues from a new music service or  higher tariff award from the Copyright Board,&#8221; Henderson remarks.  &#8220;Organizations like CONNECT and Re:Sound exist only to serve rights  holders, and today we have delivered on that promise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The improved metadata and transparency at the heart of these measures  will provide ongoing benefits to all record labels and performers, and  will help to bring Canada into line with industry best practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">News Source: <\/span><span class=\"normal\">CONNECT<br \/>Image Author: By George F.G. Stanley <br \/>License: Public Domain<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian music labels (businesses that range in size from major labels to artist-owned imprints) this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}