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Summer 2011 Vol.10, No.2
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Executive Director’s
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Ed Glinert Remembered
Unison Benevolent Fund
Launched
Canadian Copyright
Chronology
Publishers’ News
transmitCHINA Update
New CMRRA Board
of Directors
Publisher Profile
Casablanca Media
Publishing
A summer calm before the storm
CMPA anticipating the re-tabling of copyright legislation in the fall
By Martin Melhuish
Hard to recall now, in the haze of our summer
heat wave, that cold winds were blowing
when Copyright reform last dominated
our discussions on the future of the music
industry. That was in March of this year, but with
the dissolution of Parliament and the announcement
of a Federal election for May 2, for the third
time in six years, an attempt to amend the Copyright
Act in Canada ended in frustration. The landscape
has changed since then. There is a majority
Conservative government and the chill of autumn
will no doubt bring a re-opening of debate on the
subject. Heritage Minister James Moore has said he
hopes the Bill will be passed by Christmas. But the
summer’s here and the time is right – yes, for dancing
in the street, but also for kicking back in anticipation
of the many challenges sure to manifest
themselves by the time the autumn leaves begin to
fall. CMPA Executive Director Catharine Saxberg
addresses some of the issues that are sure to define
the Association’s agenda for the rest of the coming
year and into 2012.
Could you give us a thumbnail sketch of where
CMPA stands with regards to the long-awaited Copyright
Bill?
We are awaiting the re-tabling of C-32 in the fall
with a certain amount of trepidation. Copyright reform
in Canada is essential and long overdue, but
we have serious concerns with C-32 as it was presented
last year. We are hoping that the government has
heard those concerns and will make adjustments accordingly.
What are the major challenges facing music publishers
in the digital world going forward?
The list is long but at the top of everyone’s list
seems to be the need to create a new licensing
framework. We talk a great deal about the complexity
of the current situation, but you will be
hearing more and more about the enormous costs
the industry will have to bear to rectify this problem.
We hope these costs will be offset by the additional
business generated by a streamlined process
in the long run. Continues on page 12
RODEO KINGS REIGN AGAIN: (L to r) Singer/songwriters
Colin Linden (Colin Linden Music Publishing),
Stephen Fearing (Stephen Fearing Music Publishing)
and Tom Wilson (Sony/ATV Music Publishing) return as
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings with their new album Kings
and Queens (Dramatico/Universal). The album, which
features legendary performers Emmylou Harris, Lucinda
Williams and Rosanne Cash, among others, reached
number one on the National Folk/Roots/Blues chart. The
band recently played a sold out show at the Living Room
in New York City and are performing select dates across
Canada. Photo: Bob Lanois
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Executive Director’s update
I
look forward to the day when we have a new, progressive copyright
law in Canada that protects the rights of creators. Then I
can write about other things in this space. Alas, that day is still a
long way away and so, for now, this is our most important issue.
When I wrote my last Executive Director’s Update, a Conservative
majority government was not on the radar. Today, it’s a reality. Heritage
Minister James Moore announced in a speech mid-July that C-
32 will be re-tabled in the fall with the goal to get it passed into law
by Christmas. We have heard this before, but this time a majority
government could well make it happen. This is a classic good news/
bad news scenario: the good news is that the government recognizes
that copyright is a priority. The bad news is that C-32, as it was proposed
last time around, does more harm than good.
I won’t go into the flaws of the bill in detail – for a great reminder
check out C32jointstatement.ca – but suffice it to say that if this bill
goes through as is, it will be extremely difficult to make a living as
a music publisher, or indeed, as a creator or rights holder. And as
copyright is a globally entwined concept, our largest trading partners
have expressed their concerns about the bill as written. Off the
record chatter is inconclusive. Some say the government recognises
the flaws and will make modifications before tabling, others say they
will table the bill and try and fix it at committee – the legislative version
of “we’ll fix it in the mix?” – and yet others say they will push
the bill through as is.
This would be an excellent time for your Member of Parliament
to get to know you. Many of you will have a new MP and the chances
are excellent that the newly-elected will have, ahem, little knowledge
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Editor Martin Melhuish
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CMPA Communications Committee
Vivian Barclay (Warner Chappell Music Canada Ltd.)
Jodie Ferneyhough (Universal Music Publishing Group Canada)
Gary Furniss (Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada)
Elisabeth Bihl (Canadian Music Centre)
Tony Tobias (Pangaea Media & Music Inc.)
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of copyright. CMPA has sent off
information kits to every member
of the new class of 2011 in
Ottawa, but these MPs need
to know that these are not just
the concerns of associations,
but the concerns of constituents
(like you). Please phone
or e-mail your MP, identify
where you live and vote, and
say you would like to live in a
country that doesn’t chip away
intellectual property rights.
(Again, if you are looking for
ideas about what to say check
out the c32jointstatement.ca.
And, while you are there, look
Catharine Saxberg at the list of organizations supporting
this document. It’s unprecedented
in Canada to have such a large and diverse range of
rights holders agree on anything, much less something as complicated
as copyright!) Ask them to take a good hard look at C-32 and
to ensure that it won’t take money out of your pocket. CMPA will
continue to be advocating tirelessly for you on this issue, but please
don’t underestimate the value of your phone call.
In other news – is there really other news?! – this year’s World
Copyright Summit in Brussels focused on the cloud and on databases.
Apple made their cloud announcement the day before the
Summit started, and the Global Repertoire Database (GRD)/International
Works Registry (IWR) faceoff was the theme of many
panel discussions and lots of hallway chatter. A comprehensive, upto-date,
manageable database is a key element in the simplifying
of licensing, but if this was a simple task, it would have been done
already. Both the GRD and IWR will be hugely expensive, complex
and time-consuming, and success isn’t guaranteed, but it has to be
attempted. The ICMP board also met in Brussels and had some useful
discussions about performing rights societies, both the good and
the not-so-good. Unfortunately, the recent arrests in Spain at SGAE
are a blow to the overall reputation of collectives worldwide at a
time when they are under attack by rights users looking for better
deals. We need to ensure that the important work of collectives is
communicated to decision makers and stakeholders as well as the
negative headlines.
Our colleagues at the NMPA in the United States stressed the importance
of the Harry Fox Agency at their AGM this past June. Not
only do collectives collect and distribute on behalf of rights holders,
they also often fund advocacy organizations like NMPA. Of course,
we have a similar arrangement between CMRRA and CMPA. The
NMPA reported some of the results of the American government’s
serious commitment to protecting copyright. Copyright “czar” Victoria
Espinel is located in the West Wing with a mandate to bring all
relevant departmental governments together to protect intellectual
property rights. The concerted, cooperative efforts of all branches
of the U.S. government presented at the AGM made this Canadian
envious.
On a final note, please indulge me a personal thanks to Music
Canada and to the Slaight Family Foundation for their generous
donations to the Unison Benevolent Fund. The Unison Fund will
provide discreet emergency relief and counselling to those in the
music industry in trouble. Jodie Ferneyhough and I started working
on this project four years ago, and with the help of some talented
and enthusiastic folks along the way, and now these donations, this
dream will soon be a reality. Thank you.
Casablanca Media Publishing’s Ed Glinert remembered as generous,
knowledgeable and a passionate advocate
The passing of Casablanca Media Publishing
co-founder and President Ed
Glinert in late May of this year left
a real and noticeable void. At the recent
CMPA annual general meeting in Toronto,
Ed was very much in everyone’s thoughts.
CMPA President Jodie Ferneyhough, in his
opening remarks, expressed his sadness and
sense of loss and asked for a few moments
silence in remembrance. CMPA Executive
Director Catharine Saxberg noted that Ed,
a long-standing member of the CMPA, was a
passionate advocate and very well respected
by everyone. “His passing leaves a huge hole
in our relatively small community,” she said.
“Ed is not someone that can be replaced.”
SOCAN CEO Eric Baptiste called Ed a
great board member “who will be greatly
missed.” Brian Chater, President of the Avenue
Road Music Group and a friend for over
30 years, says that Ed could always be called
upon for well thought out comments and
advice on the increasing complexities of the
business and the constant change brought
on by technology and new users. “He had a
grasp of the many issues that faced the music
community as a whole.”
His passing was feature-worthy news in
the major Canadian newspapers. An article
in The Star referred to Ed in the headline
as a “pillar of the Canadian music business.”
Over a lengthy piece by Brad Wheeler in
Canada’s national newspaper The Globe
& Mail was the simple banner head: “Ed
Glinert made music happen in Canada”
with the addendum: “Deal maker brought
us Led Zeppelin, Chuck Berry, Janis Joplin,
the Grateful Dead and John Lennon.”
Emmanuel Legrand, a prominent European
music journalist and blogger wrote a
lengthy tribute in which he called Ed “...a
true publisher, who paid as much attention
to the creative development of his signings
as he would to the management of his repertoire.”
A moving tribute was paid to Ed by
NMPA Chairman Irwin Robinson during
the proceedings of their annual meeting in
New York recently.
Many years before Ed became a music
publisher in 2001 with the co-founding of
Casablanca Media Publishing (see company
profile page 11), he had been at the
very centre of the music business in Canada.
From 1967 to 1971, he had a booking
agency he called the Frederick Lewis Artist
Placement Bureau, which was located in the
heart of Yorkville Village where a couple of
years earlier, at the age of 16, he had been
the doorman at the Purple Onion club. It
has been said that at 18, he was the youngest
agent ever certified by the American Federation
of Musicians.
During those years, he booked a relatively
unknown Led Zeppelin into the
legendary Rock Pile (Masonic Temple) in
Toronto; he helped organize The Festival
Express, the train tour across Canada
featuring Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead
and members of The Band, among others,
which was the subject of a 2003 documentary
film. In 1969, Ed handled the artist
contracts for the historical Rock ‘N’ Roll
Revival show at Toronto’s Varsity Stadium,
which included John Lennon and the Plastic
Ono Band with Eric Clapton and Yoko
On, The Doors and Chuck Berry.
From 1977 to 1982, Ed co-owned National
Variety Promotions, one of Canada’s largest
adult contemporary promoters which presented
acts the stature of Frank Sinatra, Liza
Minnelli, Don Rickles and Steve Lawrence.
He also produced the musical, Pirates of
Penzance starring Barry Bostwick and Andy
Gibb at Toronto’s Royal Alexandra Theatre.
Ed was also very involved in children’s music
through companies like The Children’s
Group, which he co-founded. The company
was the owner of “Classical Kids,” one of the
most successful series of children’s records
in history.
For a number of years before he cofounded
Casablanaca, he was one of the top
entertainment lawyers in Canada with an
impressive list of clients that included artists
like Ray Charles, Muddy Waters, Howlin’
Wolf, James Cotton, David Letterman, Jim
Carrey and Howie Mandel, among others.
“Ed’s life may have been cut short, but he
managed to touch a lot of people’s lives in
that time, helping them in various capacities
and generously giving his time, knowledge,
advice and compassion to his friends, colleagues
and even strangers wanting advice
on how to break into the music business,”
said Jennifer Mitchell, Ed’s long-time partner
,who now succeeds him as President of
Casablanca.
“His energy, enthusiasm, wisdom, fighting
spirit, integrity and, above all, his ceaseless
humour and great love for music, will be
keenly missed,” stated close friend, CMRRA
President/CEO David Basskin.
Ed Glinert passed away on May 21, 2011 after
suffering a massive stroke which left him legally
brain dead. The family knew that he would not
have wanted to be kept alive on machines. They
made the decision to make him an organ donor
so that he might help countless other people live
full and productive lives. “Everyone that knew
Ed’s generous nature would agree that he would
have wanted that,” said Jennifer Mitchell. Ed is
survived by his wife, Ethel, and two children, Stephen
and Alexis, his sister Ricki and niece Emily
Eisenberg. Photo: Grant Martin
CMPA REFURBISHES ONLINE HOME
The online home of the Canadian Music
Publishers Association (CMPA) – www.
musicpublishercanada.ca – has undergone
a complete refurbish. With the
launch of the newest version of the
CMPA website comes an increased functionality,
improved graphics and new
capability for content. The hope is that
it will act as a tool to help educate the
public and people within the music
industry of the work and contributions
of music publishers. The new site represents
a commitment to CMPA’s members
and stakeholders to provide the
timely and pertinent information they
need about music publishing. CMPA
can also be followed as Canadian Music
Publishers Association on Facebook and
as canmuspub on Twitter.
Music Publisher Canada / Summer 2011

News
Publisher
ole establishes new Production Music Division, clear
clear (oleclear.com), the new production music division of ole,
recently launched as the largest player in that sector of the business
in Canada. The company’s claim was bolstered with the acquisition
of the rights to the brand and the sub-publishing book
of business of The Music People Ltd., Canada’s largest production
music company. Acquisition of The Music People, which
had been established in 1974 in Toronto by John Parry and Chris
Stone, brought with it the rights to over 150,000 music tracks
from nearly 70 different music libraries.
clear also recently-concluded a major Canadian sub-publishing
agreement with the L.A.-based production music house, MusicBox,
which brought 18,000 titles to the company. The clear
library also contains thousands of available tracks, in three main
clear-owned brands: Nelvana Production Music, a repurposing of
the elite quality music from the Nelvana show library; Attitude,
a cutting edge library produced by L.A. production music veterans,
Cunningham & Lang (Chronic, Killer
Edge) and The Masters, a fully-owned library
of authentically-played orchestral and
originally-produced material.
Award-Winning Songwriter Jim
Vallance Signs Worldwide Admin/Step-Up
To Co-Publishing
Deal with ole
ole recently concluded a worldwide administration deal /stepup
to co-publishing deal with prolific songwriter and four-time
JUNO award-winning Composer of the Year, Jim Vallance. The
deal includes select legacy works and futures.
Vallance, who is best known for his songwriting partnership
with Bryan Adams, has also written for several other international
artists including Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon,
Tina Turner, Ozzy Osbourne, KISS, Anne Murray, Joe Cocker,
Neil Diamond, and Hedley, among others. He has earned a
record four Composer of the Year JUNO Awards which he picked
up for an unprecedented four years in a row between 1984 and
1987. He is also the recipient of multiple SOCAN Classic Awards,
ASCAP and BMI Awards, and the Harold Moon Award. Behind
the scenes, he is Vice President of the Songwriters Association of
Canada (SAC) and
sits on the Board of
Directors of SOCAN.
He is also a Member
of the Order of Canada.
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Pictured (left to right)
ole CEO Robert Ott, Jim
Vallance and ole President
Michael McCarty.
Photo: Grant Martin
Pictured (left to right) are Ross Hardy, Manager, ole clear; Steve Smith,
Manager, Sales, who came to ole clear as part of The Music People acquisition;
ole CEO Robert Ott; Michelle Aguiar, Account Manager, TV
& Film and Jackzon Tan, Financial Accountant. Photo: Grant Martin
Songwriters, recording artists collaborate
on ole ‘Write Where UR Tour 2011’
ole has put a number of its writers
on the road as part of the
“Write Where UR Tour 2011.”
The centrepiece is the ole bus,
“powered by Sennheiser” and
customized with everything
needed for creative collaboration
and recording. “We are
making our writers, writing
rooms and demo facilities available
to the top artists while they
ole songwriter/artist Charlie
Worsham (far right) with band
members Adam Popick and
Rachel Loy.
are on the road so they don’t have to interrupt their creative flow
when they head out to play concerts,” explains ole President Michael
McCarty. “We figure that by the end of the tour we should
have close to 30 co-writes.” ole writers and collaborators who
have written on the bus include Monty Powell (Rascal Flatts, Lady
Antebellum) and Ryan Tyndell (Eric Church). The ole bus will be
at Country Music Week in Hamilton, Ontario in September.
Rob Wells and Sony/ATV Receive Number 1 SOCAN
Award—Sony/ATV writer/producer Rob Wells was recently
honoured with a No. 1 award from SOCAN for
his song “Comme Avant,” co-written with Marie Mai
and Fred St. Gelais. The song spent 11 weeks at number
one on Québec’s Francophone Palmares BDS Chart.
Wells, along with Sony/ATV, celebrated this achievement
in Toronto on June 29, 2011. In addition to “Comme
Avant” Wells also co-wrote “Gardes Tes Larmes.” Both
songs are featured on the platinum selling album Version
3.0 for Marie Mai. Pictured are SOCAN President Earl
Rosen, Sony/ATV President Gary Furniss and Rob Wells.
Photo : Ted Seto
Sony/ATV’s K’naan
has #1 UK hit with
‘The Lazy Song’
Sony/ATV artist/writer K’naan
has co-written the latest single
for Bruno Mars: “The Lazy
Song.” Already certified multiplatinum
in the U.S. and Australia,
to date “The Lazy Song” has
topped the charts in the UK and
is Top 5 in 12 countries including
the U.S. and Canada. Currently
writing for his upcoming release, the follow-up to
2009’s Troubadour which featured the international hit
“Waving Flag,” K’naan can also be heard on “Summer
Paradise” with Simple Plan.
Raghav
Sony/ATV celebrates #1 debut of USS’
Approved, award-winning success of its
producer ‘Tawgs’ Salter
Sony/ATV’s USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker) debuted at number one
on the iTunes Rock Album chart and number six on the iTunes Top Album
chart with their new EP, Approved. The EP, created and released
by Sony/ATV (SME Distribution), was produced by Sony/ATV writer/producer
Thomas ‘Tawgs’ Salter, and features
the Top 10 Rock radio hit “N/A OK” and
new single, “Yo Hello Hooray (Everyday).”
Salter has been enjoying some of his own
success of late having been the recipient of
the 2010 ASCAP Christian Music Award for
his song “There Is A Way,” co-written with
and recorded by NewWorldSon. The song
hit number one on the Canadian Christian
Radio charts and number two on Billboard’s
Christian Songs chart. Salter also co-wrote
the current single for Josh Groban, titled
“Higher Window,” from his platinum selling
album Illuminations as well as the current
single “Atlantic” for Midway State, which is
a hit at Hot AC radio.
Cordova Bay summer includes Raghav and David Gogo
Cordova Bay artist Raghav has kicked off his promising career in Canada with some heat as his latest
single “Fire” has racked up over 25,000 downloads and is still on the move. The single initially
had success at radio where it charted strongly at CHR and Hot AC and on the Billboard Emerging
Artists chart. In other news, guitar virtuoso and bluesman David Gogo recently released his 10th album
with Cordova Bay. It’s titled Soul Bender and the company reports that critics
and blues fans alike are calling it his most sizzling album yet. Gogo will be appearing
at festivals across Canada this summer in support of the release. Looking
forward, there’s a new album from Victoria band and indie rock heroes
Acres of Lions, due for release in September 2011. This will be their second
album with Cordova Bay.
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Publisher
News
peermusic recently acquired the
major part of songwriter/producer/musician
David Foster’s
body of work as a songwriter encompassing
his songs in Foster
Frees Music, Air Bear Music and
One Four Three Music. Among
the more than 500 songs acquired
are hits like “I Have Nothing,”
“St. Elmo’s Fire,” “Hard To
Say I’m Sorry,” “Glory of Love,”
“The Power of the Dream,” “My
Grown Up Christmas List” and
“Color of My Love.”
At the time of the deal, which
includes Foster’s future works,
peermusic Chairman and CEO
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acquires David Foster repertoire
Ralph Peer II commented: “David
Foster is one of the great
American songwriters and a special
colleague.” He also made
note of their long-standing working
relationship, which he said
he considers “truly a gift.” With
the exception of Foster Frees
Music, peermusic has been administering
Foster’s publishing
for more than 15 years... and it
has been a close relationship.
“Ralph and everyone at peermusic
are my musical family,”
said Foster, a 15-time Grammy
Award-winner (with an unprecedented
47 Grammy nominations),
who was inducted into
the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame
in June 2010. “If the songs are
my children, then they are now
being protected by their Uncle.”
Kathy Spanberger, peermusic
President Anglo American Region,
who played a role in bringing
the deal to fruition, talked of
their common passion for music
and “a close personal relationship
between two great musical
families.”
Foster’s past work with artists
like Earth Wind & Fire, Chicago,
Celine Dion, Madonna, Andrea
Bocelli and Barbra Streisand
No musical pigeon-holing for EMI writer Casey Marshall
Though EMI writer and Victoria, B.C.-native Casey Marshall
has been heading into Nashville over the last few years for
writer’s sessions with Music Row notables like Craig Wiseman
and Roger Cook, don’t get the impression that country music
is his niche. “The best line I ever heard on that subject was from
Roger Cook,” says Marshall. “I was in the room writing with him and
somebody asked, ‘Is that line country enough?’ He said, ‘I don’t
write country songs, boy, I write classic songs.’”
A few years ago, Marshall, as singer and co-writer,
could be heard on a nationally-telecast Telus commercial
with the very Beatlesque-sounding song,
“Sending Love.” Upcoming, Marshall has one of the
three contemporary cuts on a new Greatest Hits album
from country superstars, the Oak Ridge Boys.
Casey Marshall The song, “Wish You Could Have Been There,” is a
co-write with Steven Dall and John Kennedy. And for
something completely different, “Every Lie,” a co-write with Three
Day Grace drummer Neil Sanderson, who is also Marshall’s partner
in the production company Publicwurks Inc., debuted in the top
40 of the American rock charts as a single for the band My Darkest
Days, protégés of Chad Kroeger of Nickelback. A rough of the song,
one of three that has Marshall co-credited on the album including
“Can’t Forget You” and “Goodbye,” had actually made its way to
Kroeger. “He wanted to change a few things and I said, ‘Absolutely!
Anything you need! My kid needs some new shoes.’ I’m not precious
about that kind of stuff.”
Ralph Peer II (left) with
David Foster
is legendary. But, anyone who
has watched the recent, exceptionally
entertaining PBS TV
Hitman specials in which he is
featured will know that he continues
to discover and nurture
talent including artists like Josh
Groban; Michael Bublé; Filipina
singer and Glee star, Charice
and, most recently, 11-year-old
opera singing sensation, Jackie
Evancho.
As a writer, you’ve often got to be
in the right place at the right time and
to be able to recognize the fact. When
Marshall and Sanderson had a writing session cancelled while in
Nashville, they picked up the phone and called the manager of
Craig Wiseman’s publishing company, Big Loud Shirt. “We said,
‘Hey, is there anyone you can fit us in with?’” recalls Marshall. “He
called back and said, ‘How would you like to write with Craig today?’
Five hours later, we came out with ‘If I Could Go Back Again,’ probably
the best song we’ve ever written.”
CMC at Frankfurt Musikmesse 2011
Elisabeth Bihl, Executive Director of Canadian Music Centre
(CMC) and CMPA Treasurer, was on an ICMP panel at the Frankfurt
Musikmesse 2011, which debated “New models for selling
printed music online.” Panel members
included publishing companies
BTM Innovations/Zinfonia;
Schott Music; Faber Music; Edition
Peters Group and PureSolo. CMC
has for years been a leader in adapting
to the challenging realities of e-
commerce. Pictured are Bihl (left)
with ICMP Secretary General Ger
Hatton. Photo: Anne Marie Page
Natalie Merchant
extends NW1
agreement
NW1 and Hipjoint partner for new signings
Nettwerk One Music (NW1), in partnership
with Hipjoint, has signed
Vancouver-based producer/writer
Jeff Dawson. Dawson is best known as the
producer of Daniel Powter’s 2005 international
hit, “Bad Day.” He is currently producing
and co-writing with a number of
domestic and international acts. NW1 and
Hipjoint have also partnered to sign talented
singer/songwriter/producer Sherry St.
Germain. Presently located in Las Vegas, St.
Germain is performing with the Cirque Du
Soleil while continuing to write on her own
and in collaboration with others.
In late June, SOCAN celebrated JRDN’s “Like Magic” reaching
number one on the MuchMusic Countdown chart. MapleMusic
Publishing’s Avi Diamond and songwriter Jordan Croucher were
presented awards by SOCAN CEO Eric Baptiste and were joined by
MapleMusic/Fontana North’s General Manager Matt Smallwood,
Croucher’s management team, co-writers, SOCAN account managers
and close friends. Croucher was also presented with a plaque to
commemorate the gold status of his first single, “U Can Have It All.”
JRDN’s single “I Don’t Care” is having great chart success at Top
40 and the company indicates it occupies “an astounding 30% of
Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart.”
MapleMusic Publishing is also celebrating the release of Candy
Coated Killahz debut album, Neon Black (MapleMusic/Fontana
North). The self-titled first single was nominated for a MuchMusic
Video award and is closing in on half a million YouTube views.
In other news, MapleMusic Publishing’s Tasha
Schumann (Candy Coated Killahz) and Royal Wood were
both individually selected for cameo roles in the upcoming
feature film Cubo 3D: New York Nights, starring Derek
Hough (Dancing With The Stars) and BoA (often referred
to as the Queen of Korean Pop Music).
Atomic Boogie Music/MapleMusic Publishing’s Flash
Lightnin’ has been on a licensing tear lately. Select placements include
ABC’s Body Of Proof (“Flash Lightnin’”), Fox’s Bones (“Cavalry”),
Paramount Pictures trailer for Thor (“Flash Lightnin’”), NBC’s
Perfect Couples (“Flash Lightnin’”), ABC’s Scoundrels (“Rock
And Roll” and “No Sympathy”) and WWE’s feature film Legendary
In other NW1 news, the company has extended its agreement
with 10,000 Maniacs’ Natalie Merchant and has signed American
singer/songwriter William Fitzsimmons, whose songs “Passion Play”
and “Please Don’t Go” were heard in ABC’s medical drama Grey’s
Anatomy. A number of NWI affiliated writers have been enjoying
great chart success of late. NWI/Revelry writers, Grammy-nominated
Jessie Jo-Dillon and Anthony Smith with Ash
Bower’s U.S. charting single, “I Still Believe That;”
Moraine Music/NWI writer Mark Selby with his
Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Track co-write
“Never Looking Back,” recorded by Kenny Wayne
Shepherd and P&P Songs/NWI writer Ina Wroldsen
with the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 co-write
“You Make Me Feel,” recorded by Cobra Starship.
Toronto-based NW1 New Country singer, Maddy
Rodriguez, is cutting her debut album with NW1’s producer Greig
Nori, while NW1/Awesome Music artist Lisa Manis has been spending
time co-writing in Nashville in preparation for the recording of
her new album with Greg Kavanagh.
In June, NW1 and Universal Records Australia teamed up to put
on another successful writing camp in Bali combining some high
calibre writers and artists including NW1’s Fredro; the Australian
star Guy Sebastian; Arnthor Birgisson; NW1’s Gary Clark; Nick Jonas
and Delta Goodrem, among others. 27 songs were written in
three days, many of which NW1 says they expect to be cut on top
records in 2012.
Maple Music celebrates JRDN chart success, new Candy Coated
Killahz release
(“Flash Lightnin’”), among others.
Acer Music Publishing/MapleMusic Publishing’s The
Latency are back at radio with their new single, “Music
To Me” and MapleMusic Publishing have signed Montréal
singer/songwriter/producer/engineer Mike Nash. Nash’s
debut album, The Death of Reason, will be released early
2012.
Pictured (left to right) at JRDN/MapleMusic award presentation
are Eric Baptiste, CEO SOCAN; Avi Diamond, MapleMusic Publishing;
JRDN, Artist/Singer/Songwriter; Sammy Gerongco and Bobby
Gerongco, Kuya Productions; Matt Smallwood, GM, MapleMusic/
Fontana North. Photo: Ted Seto
Music Publisher Canada / Summer 2011

News
Publisher
transmitCHINA ready to roll in
September
Tyl van Toorn, CEO of Victoria, B.C.-based Fantan Group, has
announced that February 8-10, 2012 are the dates for next
years’ transmission: GLOBAL SUMMIT 2012 in Victoria. He
also notes that there is still time to register for transmitCHINA 2011
set for Beijing from September 14-17. Running in its 4th year, it is
the world’s leading think-tank connecting international and Chinese
executives from a variety of creative industry sectors. Creative
Content, Distribution Platforms and Digital Retail Solutions are at
the core of transmitCHINA, which encompasses a three-day Conference
in Beijing featuring transmitCHINA’s signature roundtable
discussions and a two-day Festival featuring innovative Chinese and
Western performers playing in front of a new generation of music
consumers in downtown Beijing.
van Toorn notes that these initiatives have gone from 75 percent
public funding and 25 percent private funding to 75 percent private
funding and 25 percent public funding. He says that one of the biggest
challenges they have witnessed over the last five years in the
creative content industry as they continue to confront technological
change is the ability to measure success.”
“We’re working closely with the public sector and academics to
develop an R&D process to really redefine and better understand
Jennifer Beavis builds client list under
Librascor Copyright Consulting
Jennifer Beavis, operating under the name Librascor
Copyright Consulting, has developed a substantial
client base over the past six months. In October
of last year, she began working with Street Quality
Entertainment Ltd. of Victoria, B.C. to get their
music publishing and record company divisions
up and running while fulfilling a similar role at
Jennifer Toronto-based Arts & Crafts Productions. Beavis
Beavis has an exclusive Canadian sync deal with New Yorkbased
Primary Wave Music as well as a sub-publishing
deal with U.S.-based Conexion Media Group. Other current
clients include music executive Jay Devonish, who has a couple of
American artists with copyright collection issues, and ERG Music,
a promotional and DJ music supply company with whom she is
working to ensure royalty compliance issues are covered. Beavis,
who has close to two decades experience in music publishing, has
held executive positions with BMG, EMI and Vancouver-based
Nettwerk Productions. Most recently, she was Senior Director of
Administration at ole since its founding in 2004 and, in the past,
was Director of Copyright for the CMMRA for four and a half
years. She has served on the Boards of CMPA and The Canadian
Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as on the Canadian Country
Music Awards and Durham College Music Business Management
Committee. She has lectured extensively on copyright and publishing,
both at home and abroad.
Snapshot of select conference roundtable participants at transmitCHINA
2010 Conference in Shanghai with Catharine Saxberg, CMPA Executive
Director (in red). transmitNOW events attract executives, thought leaders,
entrepreneurs, and decision-makers from creative and digital industries
around the world, who all participate in the signature roundtable discussions.
how to measure value and that’s where we’re enjoying the benefits
of assessment right now from that sector,” he states. “The private sector
are coming in to achieve both tactical and strategic goals at these
events. We are in the game of commercializing ideas; we’re generating
deal flows, we’re building new networks and we’re ultimately
responding to people’s needs for better dialogue overall.” CMPA
has been a partner in the transmission and transmitNOW initiatives
from the outset. For more info on how to register, go to: www.transmitnow.com/participate/register
Introducing the new CMRRA
Board of Directors
The new CMRRA Board of Directors for 2011-13 consists
of Vivian Barclay, General Manager, Warner/Chappell
Music Canada; Pegi Cecconi, VP SRO/Anthem Entertainment;
Brian Chater, President, Avenue Road Music Group;
Jodie Ferneyhough, CMPA President and President of CCS
Rights Management; Gary Furniss, President of Sony/ATV Music
Publishing Canada;
Craig Horton, Director of Business Affairs and Royalty Administration
, Nettwerk One Music Publishing; Daniel Lafrance,
General Manager of Editorial Avenue and President of Professional
Music Publishers’ Association (PMPA/APEM); Shawn
Marino, VP of Universal Muisc Publishing Group Canada; Robert
Ott, President/CEO of ole; Neville Quinlan, Managing Director,
peermusic Canada; Barb Sedun, Senior Vice President,
EMI Music Publishing Canada and Tony Tobias, President of
Pangaea Media & Music Inc. All were members of the 2009-11
board. Gary Furniss was re-elected as Chair and Tony Tobias as
Vice-Chair.
Pangaea Media and Music’s Tony Tobias, right, and Montreal lawyer Kerry
Williams talk IP rights at North By North East Interactive.
Publisher
Profile
Orbison, Van Heusen catalogues lead the
way into Casablanca’s second decade
By Martin Melhuish
In a flurry of recent activity,
Casablanca Media
Publishing, now
moving into its second
decade, has acquired the
catalogues for Canada of two songwriting legends:
Roy Orbison and Jimmy Van Heusen.
The Orbison catalogue includes songs that
are a part of popular culture: “Crying,” “Only
the Lonely,” “Oh, Pretty Woman” and “Running
Scared.” Van Heusen is an Oscar and
Emmy Award-winning songwriter, who wrote
more songs (85) recorded by Frank Sinatra,
his long-time friend, than any other composer.
During this same period, Casablanca has
also taken on the representation of catalogues
from Canadian country singer, Michelle
Wright, 2011’s Artist Inductee into the Canadian
Country Music Hall of Fame: Paris-based
22D Music Group is an independent music
rights management company, with a special
focus on audio-visual industries; Los Angelesbased
Bulletproof Entertainment, run by record
producer, music supervisor, composer,
songwriter and screenwriter, Ralph Sall and
Bruce Nash Entertainment, one of the biggest
and most prolific television production
companies in America.
This is a continuation of Casablanca’s
impressive growth over the past four years
that has seen the company take on some
of the biggest song catalogues in the world
for Canada including Bug/Windswept,
which contains a quarter of a million songs;
First State Media Group and the Arc Music
Group, which represents songs from many
of the legendary blues artists.
In 2001, when the late Ed Glinert and
Jennifer Mitchell founded Casablanca Media
Publishing, the company set out to capitalize
on an increasing demand for entertainment
content from global cable and digital
broadcasters. Glinert was a well-established
entertainment lawyer at the Toronto firm of
Farano Green (later Gardiner Roberts) and
Mitchell, was his associate. Mitchell, who
grew up in Timmins, Ontario, the home
of Shania Twain – she was the singer in her
brother’s high school band – earned a business
degree at Queen’s University and went
into law from there.
“At the outset with Casablanca, music publishing
wasn’t the biggest component of our
business plan,” reveals Mitchell, who is now
Casablanca’s President based on earlier succession
planning they had done which will ultimately
see her buy out the estate for Glinert’s
shares and become the major stakeholder.
“We actually wanted to be in the music business.
Ed already owned a piece of Solid Gold
Records and we had the opportunity to buy
another label, Casablanca Kids – Oak Street
Music at the time. We were also involved in
TV production. In the early days, we did a lot
of compilation CD sales especially with our
children’s catalogue. The compilation market
became our canary in the coal mine. Sales
peaked and then you could see them falling
off and we realized this wasn’t a good longterm
strategy. We were enjoying the music
publishing part of our business and, at the
time, there really wasn’t a great independent
full-service music publisher in Canada and
there seemed to be a need for that.”
The company’s plan, she says, was to build
up the administration first and become a
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Jennifer Mitchell
great full-service music publisher. Once the
infrastructure was in place, the company began
acquiring significant catalogues of music,
TV and video properties while serving
as Canadian representative for a handful of
powerhouse international publishing houses.
“The way Ed and I worked was that I oversaw
all the day-to-day and Ed dealt with the
business development,” Mitchell explains.
“We crossed over into each other’s jobs all
the time. We operated like two partners, so
we didn’t make any decisions that the other
didn’t know about. I’m working on making
sure that things are as they are supposed
to be here but also working on some new
catalogue acquisitions as well. Nothing has
changed there.”
Casablanca is putting together a songwriter
camp in August in Collingwood, Ontario.
15 indie songwriters will collaborate
for 3 days with a focus on synchronization
licensing. Briefs will be provided from music
supervisors in the U.S. and Canada for
upcoming projects to give the songwriting
teams direction. Casablanca will also be recording
the songs in Toronto immediately
after the camp with the intention of releasing
the best songs on a digital EP. A portion
of the proceeds will be given to the Heart
and Stroke Foundation of Canada in honour
of Ed Glinert. Amy Eligh, (Creative
Manager) was in Los Angeles recently doing
the rounds to make sure that most of the
music supervisors that Casablanca deals with
are aware of the camp.
2011 CISAC COPYRIGHT SUMMIT, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
SOCAN CEO and former Director General of CISAC Eric Baptiste voices his concern
over the future of copyright. “The challenge I’m most concerned about is the
attitude towards copyright, this increasing social resistance to copyright itself, seen
as an obstacle to business innovation. Our priority should be to turn this around as
quickly as possible before it reaches some kind of tipping point. Studies converge
around the world on the public’s acceptance of the need for creators to be fairly
compensated. Poor corporate images and outdated strategies that don’t resonate
well with digital natives are issues we need to tackle as soon as possible.”

CMPA following music biz/ISP conversations in U.S. with interest
Continued from page 1
Is a cosier relationship between music publishers and ISPs a
more realistic possibility these days?
I doubt that we will ever describe the relationship between music
publishers and ISPs as cosy, but we are following with interest the
conversations between the music industry and ISPs in the U.S. It’s
in the interests of both music and the ISPs to work together more
closely and we are optimistic that we can move in that direction.
them will tell you that they see potential that’s worth the investment
of time and money.
What are the benefits of membership in CMPA?
Music publishing is a complicated, fast changing business, and
How crucial are music publishers to the development of new writers
of the songs that are the lifeblood of a thriving music culture?
Very crucial. There are countless examples of now-famous songwriting/performing
artists who signed deals with publishers long
before labels found them. Publishers help songwriters hone their
craft, record the first demos – and in some cases the first masters
– and advance them the resources to keep food in the fridge and
roofs over their heads.
With CMPA’s long-term partnership with initiatives like transmissionGLOBAL
Summit and transmitCHINA and your current seat on
the board of the ICMP, CMPA has been increasingly taking a greater
world view on music matters. How did this evolve and what is the
philosophy behind it?
The future of Canadian music publishers is significantly influenced
by forces beyond our borders. Conversely, we believe that
we do a lot of things right in Canada and we are keen to share our
perspective and experience with others. CMPA is a longstanding
member of ICMP and we were ably represented on its board by
Mark Altman for many years. I am very proud to have been elected
to the ICMP board by our international colleagues; the organization
uses its influence wisely and effectively on behalf of publishers
around the globe, and it’s an honour to represent Canadian
publishers at that table. I’ve been very impressed by the growing
profile and influence of ICMP over that past few years. Ger Hatton
and her staff, and my very impressive board-mates, have a lot to be
proud of.
Music publishers are not afraid of change and that philosophy is
represented in our partnership with the transmission events. transmitGLOBAL
has evolved and improved every year to the point where
it is a highly respected, cross-sectoral think-tank that really digs into
the tough issues facing content industries in a digital world. The
questions raised by the current business, cultural and technological
climates are extremely complex and require fearless examination. A
lot of content providers are apprehensive about that; Canadian music
publishers aren’t. We have been involved with transmission from
day one, and I think we have made a contribution to their agenda by
raising the issues of rights management in a thoughtful way. Rights
management in the complex global picture is a key purpose of music
publishers, so being at the table for the transmission events is
an important opportunity for us. As part of transmitCHINA, CMPA
members have been going to China for four years now and most of
Catharine Saxberg, CMPA Executive Director, addresses members at the
Association’s recent Annual General Meeting. Photo: Tony Tobias.
the best music publishers are constantly processing information.
CMPA helps provide, manage and synthesize that information for
its members. This magazine, Music Publisher Canada, and our biweekly
e-blasts keep our membership informed and engaged as
does our participation in industry conferences and showcases. Education
and mentoring are long-time cornerstones of our mandate.
Besides providing opportunities for our publishers to connect with
each other, CMPA also works very hard as an advocate for music
publishers with various levels of government on issues that shape
the future of our business. Membership in CMPA is also a persuasive
demonstration of the passion you have for our culture and
your desire to help make the changes needed to keep our industry
viable. Robert Ott, ole CEO and a former President of CMPA, once
made the point that, since the founding of the Association in 1949,
a silent few in the music business have worked for the good of the
many. They willingly shared the fruits of hard-won legal and diplomatic
campaigns that promoted and protected the interests of
composers and publishers of popular and serious music in Canada.
He felt that the future of CMPA involved building on the efforts of
those “silent few” to become the voice of the “loud many.”
Catharine Saxberg became Executive Director of CMPA on May 24,
2005. She arrived with a distinguished background in the music industry
and association management. At the time, she had most recently held the
position of Executive Director of the Radio Starmaker Fund, an initiative of
the Canadian Association of Broadcasters. Prior to that, she had held senior
positions with Balmur Corus Music and Canadian Broadcast Sales.
JOIN CMPA! If you own music copyrights you should be a member of the Canadian Music Publishers Association
(CMPA). We are the voice of music publishing in Canada. We promote and protect the interests of Canadian music publishers and
creators. For more information contact Catharine Saxberg at csaxberg@musicpublishing.ca You can find our website at
www.musicpublishercanada.ca
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