Parliament’s compromise text has four main planks, all of which we wholeheartedly support: firstly, an extension of the term of copyright protection for performers and record producers from 50 to 70 years; secondly, a new claim for session players amounting to 20% of record labels’ off-line and online sales revenue; thirdly a ‘use it or lose it’ provision that allows performers to recover the rights after 50 years, should the producer fail to market the sound recording; and, fourthly, a so-called ‘clean slate’, which prevents record producers from making deductions from the royalties they pay to feature performers.

The studio assists francophone producers outside Quebec from Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and not to forget, the Great North, including the Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories.