The Canadian
Music Landscape
of Associations
Find organizations to expand your music career.
Grants, Licensing, Associations and Groups
Creators, Composers and Song Writers
A growing coalition of Canadian music creators shares the common goal of having our voices heard about the laws and policies that affect our livelihoods. We are the people who actually create Canadian music. Without us, there would be no music for copyright laws to protect.
The Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) is a Canadian organization dedicated to Canadian composers, lyricists, and songwriters exclusively. Its mission is to develop and protect the creative and business environments for songwriters in Canada and around the world.
The Society of Composers & Lyricists organization was founded in 1983 representing composers and lyricists working in visual media, such as television and film. The members of this organization also include orchestrators, arrangers, music supervisors, music agents, music attorneys, music editors, copyists, and audio engineers.
The Association of Canadian Women Composers (ACWC/ACC) is the only professional association of women and women-identified composers and musicians in Canada. It actively supports music written by Canadian women and women-identified persons.
Publishers & Licensing
Canadian Music Production Rights Agency Limited
The Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd is a music licensing collective representing music rightsholders who range in size from large multinational music publishers to individual songwriters.
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Re:Sound is a Canadian non-profit performance rights organization that collects and administers Neighbouring Rights royalties on behalf of recording artists, including featured artists and session musicians, and record labels in Canada
Music Publishers of Canada is a non-profit membership-based organization whose mission is to create business opportunities for our members and to promote their interests and those of their songwriting partners through advocacy, communication, and education.
Organizations that support Music
The Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (CAML) aims to encourage and promote the activities of institutions concerned with music information and materials in Canada.
The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a digital library of public-domain music scores. It includes public domain and licensed recordings to allow for study by ear. The project, which uses MediaWiki software, has uploaded more than 495,000 scores and 59,000 recordings of more than 152,000 works by 18,000 composers.
