L’ADISQ félicite l’honorable Pablo Rodriguez pour sa nomination à titre de ministre du Patrimoine canadien

L’Association est enthousiaste à l’idée de travailler avec le nouveau ministre sur les chantiers prioritaires pour l’industrie indépendante de la musique, nommément la modernisation de la Loi sur la radiodiffusion et la hausse du soutien financier à l’industrie.

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Mike Ward n’a pas enfreint la Charte, conclut la Cour suprême du Canada

Dans une décision très partagée à cinq contre quatre, la Cour suprême du Canada a mis fin à plus de 10 ans de saga judiciaire et a tranché en faveur de Mike Ward : les railleries de l’humoriste n’ont pas porté atteinte au droit à la dignité et à l'égalité de Jérémy Gabriel.

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Streaming services push for pre-2018 song royalty rate in US Copyright Royalty Board proceedings

The US Copyright Royalty Board has published what the streaming services think should be the song royalty rates they pay under America’s compulsory licence from 2023 to 2027. The lengthy and partly redacted documents confirm that there is quite a battle brewing. Spotify and Amazon are basically pushing for a top level rate of around 10.5%, which is just over half what the music publishers are proposing.

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Music festivals face threats from climate change 

This summer, what we’ve seen meteorologically are a great number of incredible record-shattering heat waves, downpours and flood events. When you have thousands of people congregating together outdoors or in partially exposed circumstances, those are precisely the kinds of conditions in which extreme heat and storms are a pretty big problem

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Le Rap en France : Etat des lieux, l’enquête

C’est une certitude. En 2021, le rap et les autres musiques urbaines (R&B, trap, drill etc) dominent de manière écrasante le paysage phonographique français. La France est devenue le deuxième marché mondial du rap après les États-Unis, sa terre de naissance dans la deuxième moitié des années 70, avec une scène locale qui renverse tout sur son passage.

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20 years of the iPod: how it shuffled music and tech into a new era

Before the iPod lifeline arrived in October 2001, record labels were in full panic mode. In its annual report for 2001, record company trade body IFPI called it “a turbulent” year, blaming filesharing and CD burning for a revenue slump. Jay Berman was chief exective of IFPI at the time and calls the scale of filesharing then “a crisis of momentous proportions” for record labels. “It really was,” he says, “a foreign invasion.”

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It's David vs. Goliath as songwriters take on streaming services [All you need to know]

Next year, a trial will take place that will determine how much songwriters are paid by digital streaming services for the years 2023-2027. As music fans move from buying records and listening to AM-FM radio to digital music services, songwriters increasingly depend on revenue from these platforms for their livelihood.

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Music industry makes commitments and demands ahead of UN Climate Change Conference

The independent music community – via IMPALA – has called for the European Union and national governments across Europe to “ensure clear transitional pathways for all European countries, along with a support mechanism for sectors who are leading the way in this area”.

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Corus reports $19.9M Q4 profit, revenue up 13% from year ago

Revenue for the quarter totalled $361.3 million, up from $318.4 million in the same quarter last year for the company behind Global Television, W Network, HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada and other specialty television services, radio stations and conventional television stations.

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COVID caused 775 million euro drop in song royalty collections in 2020, CISAC confirms

Royalties collected by the song right collecting societies across the world were down 10.7% last year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which equates to a drop in revenues of 775 million euros. This is according to new stats from CISAC, the global grouping of collecting societies.

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Quand l’industrie culturelle se frotte aux NFT : opportunisme ou révolution ?

Après la vente record d’une œuvre numérique au mois de mars, les NFT font vibrer les médias. Alors que le monde de l’art s’est déjà approprié ce concept technologique, qu’en est-il de l’industrie musicale ?

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What is the metaverse? 28 experts speak

Defined loosely, the metaverse is an all-digital layer of reality that floats above, around, and throughout the features of the real world–or, in some definitions, is entirely separate for it.

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