Recent Judicial Decision: A Tale of Two Music Royalty Streams (ESA v SOCAN)
Decision re Music Royalties A potential new source of music revenue for artists has recently been eliminated. In Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v Entertainment Software Association et al. 2022 SCC 30 (“ESA v SOCAN”), the Supreme Court clarified that making a work available online does not result in a separate […]
Online Concert Licensing and Royalties – Part 2
The Rights of Online Concerts: This is the second blog about online concert licensing and royalties. In the first blog, I provided a chart that summarized some licensing considerations for online concerts based in Canada. This blog introduces three rights that presenters require with respect to the compositions being performed at commercial online concerts. […]
Being a Musician is a Business (SOCAN)
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers, more commonly known as SOCAN, helps ensure that composers, authors and publishers are compensated for certain uses of their work. However, there are several misconceptions about SOCAN, including that SOCAN covers more music royalties than it actually does, and that there is no point in registering with […]
