The Canadian
Music Landscape
of Associations

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Music Associations

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Initiatives and Grants

THE FOUNDATION ASSISTING CANADIAN TALENT ON RECORDINGS

A private non-profit organization dedicated to providing assistance toward the growth and development of the Canadian music industry.

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SOCAN Foundation fosters, sustains, and promotes the creation of Canadian music.

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Ontario Creates

Creating success in publishing in the interactive media and music industries.

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Galleries, Centres and Halls

The Canadian Music Hall of Fame established in 1978 by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences honours Canadian musicians for their lifetime achievements in music. Each year the award presentation is part of the Juno Award ceremonies.

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The Canadian Music Centre was founded in 1959 by a group of Canadian composers who saw a need to create a repository for Canadian music. It now holds Canada’s largest collection of Canadian concert music, and works to promote the music of its Associate Composers in Canada and around the world.

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The Music Gallery is an independent performance venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known as a space for musical and interdisciplinary projects in experimental genres. The Music Gallery is publicly funded through arts grants from the city, province, and country, and through membership and ticket sales.[1]

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The National Music Centre is a non-profit museum and performance venue located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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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.

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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.

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