Music Canada’s submission to the CRTC’s session on “The Path Ahead – Supporting Canadian and Indigenous audio content material.” - Music Canada

This week, Music Canada submitted detailed responses to the CRTC as a part of its session on “The Path Ahead – Supporting Canadian and Indigenous audio content material.”

We now have engaged meaningfully all through the CRTC’s regulatory course of as a result of regulating music streaming may have far-reaching impacts throughout the Canadian music business. This continuing considers introducing rules that might affect the core options of the music streaming shopper expertise – an expertise that Canadian audiences have embraced and that underpins a market that’s driving renewed business development and funding within the subsequent era of Canadian and Indigenous artists.

It’s necessary the CRTC will get this proper.

Our submission outlines a variety of key rules to tell the event of a contemporary regulatory framework for music streaming. We imagine these rules are vital to make sure that the regulatory framework aligns with the distinctive options of the worldwide and extremely aggressive music streaming market during which Canadian and Indigenous artists try to succeed:

Music streaming is the important thing income driver for the Canadian recorded music business and rules needs to be rigorously calibrated to help, not hinder, its development;
Music streaming platforms have established strategies of selling Canadian music and the regulatory framework ought to acknowledge, mirror and incentivize these enterprise fashions;
The regulatory framework for music streaming ought to assist Canadian and Indigenous artists compete on the extremely aggressive international stage the place shoppers can take heed to just about any track ever recorded;
Radio guidelines have been designed for radio; they won’t work for music streaming;
Person selection have to be protected, in any other case we threat driving listeners again to piracy the place artists don’t receives a commission when their music is performed; and
Discoverability means selling Canadian and Indigenous music, not dictating what Canadians take heed to.

Learn Music Canada’s full submission right here:

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