What We Do

Re:Sound represents and safeguards the rights of its artist and record companies and ensures that they are fairly compensated for the broadcast and public performance of their music in Canada. We accomplish this by filing Tariffs before the Copyright Board of Canada on their behalf, contacting and granting licences to all Canadian broadcasters, music users and suppliers, as well as collaborating with similar organisations around the world.

The Copyright Board of Canada certifies the tariffs to be paid by users of sound recordings in Canada. Re:Sound files tariffs for various types of users, including radio stations, pay audio services, satellite radio companies, gyms, nightclubs and background music users such as restaurants, retail establishments, and hotels.

The income we generate is allocated and distributed to our members less only actual costs. Over 80% of collected income is distributed to our members.

The process of distributing income requires millions of micro-transactions annually. We receive data from various sources, then need to clean, match, research, correct and summarize it before being able to distribute monies to our members. All collected monies are distributed equally between artists and record companies.