SOCAN wants court to know royalties are separate from CanCon contributions

Music Canada says base contribution will disincentivize and jeopardize investments By Ahmad Hathout The largest rights management organization in Canada is asking the Federal Court of Appeal for intervenor status to argue that royalties are not equivalent to Canadian content contributions for the sake of determining how much foreign streamers are adding to the broadcasting system. Amazon, Spotify and Apple, who have been granted a court hearing against a CRTC decision to force them to contribute five per cent of their annual Canadian revenues to content funds, each stream music. In their appeal against the regulator’s decision – which touch...