Songwriters Association of Canada applauds the CRTC’s recent decision to uphold the importance of Canadian music creators in defining a Canadian audiovisual program. This decision celebrates the role of Canadian-created music in shaping our culture, and ensures Canadian music creators remain vital contributors to Canadian audiovisual storytelling.

Under the updated framework:

• To be awarded a music composer point, the production must engage a Canadian composer.
• For productions which do not use a composer, or which use a Canadian composer, use of 50% or greater of pre-existing Canadian music by a production may be used to achieve a bonus certification point, provided that the music used toward the achievement of the point meets Commission’s certification criteria for “Canadian Musical Selections” (currently the MAPL criteria).
• Importantly, productions which engage a non-Canadian composer are not eligible to receive any music-related certification points.

Read the full CRTC decision here

S.A.C. wishes to thank our colleagues at The Screen Composers Guild of Canada and Société professionnelle des auteurs, compositeurs du Québec et des artistes entrepreneurs (SPACQ-AE), as well as the ACCORD coalition for working tirelessly to promote and protect the value of Canadian music creators.