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The Canadian Cultural Observatory lists publications and resources as a public service only and does not promote or endorse them in any way.
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This report details how record companies are adapting their business to the dramatic changes brought about in the digital age.
Creator(s): International Federation of the Phonographic Industry | Date Published: 2008-01
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"The 2007 Digital Music Survey released by Entertainment Media Research and law firm Olswang, builds on last year's findings, and reveals some powerful new findings about the state of UK music."
Creator(s): Entertainment Media Research | Date Published: 2007-07-30
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"Protecting Creativity in Music."
Creator(s): International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) | Date Published: 2007-02-07
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"Record labels have become digitally literate companies, selling an estimated US$2 billion worth of music online or through mobile phones in 2006 (trade revenues), almost doubling the market in the last year."
Creator(s): International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) | Date Published: 2007-01-17
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"This report has been prepared by Larry LeBlanc for the Canadian Association of Broadcasters."
Creator(s): Larry LeBlanc | Date Published: 2006-02
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« La synthèse de l'étude commanditée par la Fédération des sociétés de musique d'Alsace (FSMA) et pilotée par l'Observatoire des politiques culturelles vient de paraître. »
Creator(s): L'Observatoire des politiques culturelles | Date Published: 2006
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"This document is the first annual economic profile on the Canadian sound recording industry produced by the Department of Canadian Heritage. It provides information on the Canadian and International sound recording markets and music copyright royalties in Canada."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2005-01-07
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"The report assists in establishing a financial profile of the sound recording sector, in furnishing quantifiable information for use in assessing the effectiveness of policy objectives and industry-related programs, and in providing insight as to the future repositioning of companies."
Creator(s): Nordicity Group Ltd. for Telefilm Canada | Date Published: 2004-09-30
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"The CMF was established to promote the Canadian sound recording industry at every level–from creators to audience. Announced in June 2001, it is part of the Tomorrow Starts Today initiative. Building upon the Sound Recording Development Program (SRDP), an evaluation (April 2000) identified the need to modernize public support for the Canadian sound recording industry and to establish a clear policy with regard to the sector."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2004
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"FACTOR/MUSICACTION CANADA (FMC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and promotion of Canadian content sound recordings."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2003-03-14
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"The Government of Canada is pleased to launch the Canadian Sound Recording Policy. This policy signals an important evolution from project based support to a comprehensive policy framework that invests in the Canadian sound recording sector at every level-from creators to audience."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2002
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"The purpose of this international comparative study is to identify and review direct and indirect support programs, as well as legislative, regulatory and administrative support measures for domestic sound recording industries in selected countries."
Creator(s): Liudmila Kirpitchenko | Date Published: 2000-07-01
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"The Sound Recording Development Program (SRDP) was implemented more than twelve years ago (1986)."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2000-04
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"This report was prepared for the Department of Canadian Heritage in 1999. The purpose of this document is to provide a qualitative profile of the English and French-language components of the Canadian music publishing industry and to identify the principal policy issues facing the industry."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1999
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"The purpose of this report is to provide a factual picture of the sound recording industry in Canada today."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1996
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"Nordicity Group Limited prepared this report for the Task Force on the Future of the Music Industry in Canada."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1995-06-05
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"As part of its mandate the Task Force asked us to examine current governmental policies and programs for the sound recording industry and other legislation relating to the industry and to formulate policy recommendations to ensure the long-term viability of the different sectors (e.g., production, distribution, retail) and components (i.e., French-language and English-language, as well as foreign-owned and Canadian-owned [but most specifically the Canadian-owned component]) ..."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1992
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General Reference |
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"“Music is my business!” seeks to explain and demystify how the music industry works."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2006
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Issues
Creator(s): Canadian Recording Industry Association | Date Published: 2006
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"The Canada Music Fund (CMF) seeks to strengthen the Canadian sound recording industry "from creator to audience"."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2005
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Statistics |
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"This survey collects the financial and operating data needed to produce statistics on the Sound Recording and Music Publishing Industry in Canada."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2007-11-07
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"Statistics Canada survey data and analysis covering the topic of sound recording in Canada."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2005-10-26
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"This year's edition includes record company market share figures for 2004, and, for the first time shows global revenues from the collection of performance rights, along with data, statistics and trends in 65 countries' music markets"
Creator(s): International Federation of the Phonographic Industry | Date Published: 2005-08-02
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«Musique.»
Creator(s): Institut de la statistique Québec | Date Published: 2005-03-15
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"These tables contain statistical information related to the profile of new releases by Language of Lyrics and Musical Category."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2004-12-23
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"Of the 331 record companies in Canada, 120 are based in Ontario."
Creator(s): Ontario Media Development Corporation | Date Published: 2004-07-21
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"EEC Canada has estimated there are approximately 1,250 individuals (+/- 10%) working in the music industry of New Brunswick."
Creator(s): Étude Économique Conseil (EEC Canada) Inc. for Music Industry Association of New Brunswick | Date Published: 2004-04
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"The purpose of this study is to review the characteristics of the sound recording industry in British Columbia and, based on an assessment of our strengths and weaknesses, identify actions that can be taken to better position BC to act on opportunities developing in the industry."
Creator(s): Ference Weicker & Company | Date Published: 2004-01
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"Cultural Sector's Economic Contribution to Canada - Sound Recording."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage, Strategic Research and Analysis | Date Published: 2002-06
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"Assessment of the Nova Scotia Music Industry."
Creator(s): Lyle Tilley Davidson/ Music Industry Association of Nova Scotia | Date Published: 1999
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"The core sectors of the sound recording industry combine to represent a significant contribution to the Manitoba economy. Total revenue for the industry amounts to over $8.6 million (excluding the retail sector) each year."
Creator(s): KPMG and Manitoba Audio Recording Industry Association | Date Published: 1998-09-06
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Legislation & Regulations |
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"This policy signals an important evolution from project-based support to a comprehensive policy framework that invests in the Canadian sound recording sector at every level-from creators to audience."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2002
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Related Materials
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"Vinyl albums, VCR tapes and camera film may soon have company in the graveyard of obsolete media: compact discs and DVDs."
Creator(s): Peter Nowak, CBC News | Date Published: 2008-01-31
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"The primary objective of this paper is to determine how the downloading of music files through Internet peer-to-peer (P2P) networks influences music purchasing in Canada."
Creator(s): Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz | Date Published: 2007-05-04
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"This report provides an overview of the impact of technology and culture on music, beginning in the 19th century and concluding with predictions for the future. Implications for copyrights, intellectual property, and the creation, manufacture and distribution of music are discussed."
Creator(s): Daniel J. Levitin, Ph.D. | Date Published: 2007
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"This research study was commissioned by CRIA to provide objective, empirical evidence in support of CRIA’s submission to the CRTC responding to Public Hearing 2006-1 – Review to the CRTC responding to Public Hearing 2006-1 – Review of the Commercial Radio Policy."
Creator(s): Canadian Recording Industry Association | Date Published: 2006-02
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"Two years ago, few could have predicted the extraordinary growth we have seen in the digital music business. Some 420 million single tracks were downloaded in 2005, up more than twenty times on two years ago."
Creator(s): International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) | Date Published: 2006-01-19
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« L'objectif central de ce rapport qui est celui de la diversité musicale demeur donc au coeur d'un des nouveaux enjeux, l'année prochaine, qui établiront un mode optimal d'organisation du système de radiodiffusion en France. »
Creator(s): André Nicolas, l'Observatoire de la musique | Date Published: 2004
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"The Canadian Independent Record Production Association is the trade organization representing the independent sector of the Canadian music and sound recording industry. For over 25 years CIRPA has been the collective voice of independent music in English-speaking Canada."
Creator(s): The Canadian Independent Record Production Association | Date Published: 2005
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"Artspages is a global partnership of rights owners and technology providers – a nexus between the arts, media and R&D; community facilitating sustainable eCommerce in the culture and content industries."
Creator(s): ArtsPages | Date Published: 2004-02-20
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"The Canadian Music Centre exists to stimulate the awareness, appreciation and performance of Canadian Music."
Creator(s): Canadian Music Centre
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"Statistics Canada data bank and analysis of radio listening in Canada."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2007-06-26
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"ASCAP is a membership association of over 170,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music. Through agreements with affiliated international societies, ASCAP also represents hundreds of thousands of music creators worldwide."
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"Canadian Music Council/Conseil canadien de la musique. Umbrella organization established in 1944 as a 'music committee'. It adopted its name in 1945, received a federal charter in 1949, and set up a permanent secretariat in Ottawa in 1976. It ceased operations in 1990, though it retained its charter. Its membership consisted of organizations and individuals."
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"Everyday the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada helps thousands of musicians just like you. We are the largest organization in the world representing the interests of professional musicians."
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"International Association of Music Information Centres is a world-wide network of organisations promoting new music."
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"Music is the soundtrack of our lives. In the background and the foreground of our daily activities are the songs, singers, composers and musicians that punctuate our passage from childhood to adulthood and which shape our understanding of the world around us."
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"MUSIC! LIVE! AND FREE! That's what the Music Performance Trust Funds is all about. From small town to major metropolis, hundreds of thousands of live musical events take place every year in the United States and Canada in connection with patriotic, educational and public activities."
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"Representing the recording industry worldwide."
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"The American Composers Forum is committed to supporting composers and developing new markets for their music. Through granting, commissioning, and performance programs, the Forum provides composers at all stages of their careers with valuable resources for professional and artistic development."
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"The American Music Conference is a national non-profit educational association founded in 1947."
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"The Canadian Independent Record Production Association is the trade organization representing the independent sector of the Canadian music and sound recording industry. For over 25 years CIRPA has been the collective voice of independent music in English-speaking Canada."
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"The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) is a non-profit trade organization that was founded in 1964 to represent the interests of Canadian companies that create, manufacture and market sound recordings."
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"The ICTM is an NGO (non-governmental organization) in formal consultative relations with UNESCO."
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"The International Foundation for Music Research (IFMR) was founded in 1997 to support scientific research to explore the relationship between music and physical and emotional wellness, with particular attention to the elderly population, the impact of music making on at-risk youth, and music education and the effect of music and music making."
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"The National Association for the Study and Performance of African American Music (NASPAAM) is an organization whose purpose is to further the development and dissemination of African American music through advocacy, education and performance. The organization is committed to providing leadership and motivation for music educators, musicians, and others interested in fostering the inclusion of African and African-American music in education and society."
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"The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Its mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality."
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"The Royal Conservatory of Music reaches 500,000 Canadians each year and, through its faculty, graduates and programs, is increasingly active throughout the world."
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"The SPACQ’s role has grown considerably over the years. However, its primary objective remains the same: to promote and defend the rights associated with the work of songwriters and composers of French-language songs and of music composers born or living in Quebec."`
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FACTOR, The Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records."
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« La création de Zone Franche remonte à une dizaine d'années. Elle répondait d'abord au sentiment d'isolement des professionnels de la diffusion, de la production et de la promotion des musiques du monde. »
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« La musique, c'est avant tout une rencontre entre la scène et le public. Des artistes qui, sans concession, livrent leur corps, leur âme et leur folie pour faire soulever la foule pendant le spectacle, au moment de l'ovation et, si la magie opère longtemps après dans le coeur des spectateurs. »
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Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)
Creator(s): International Council for Traditional Music
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