On Saturday 16 February in Montreal, MCNA Executive Committee member, Greg Johnston will join Martine Groulx of the SOCAN Foundation at the 2019 Folk Alliance International Conference. They will be participating on a panel titled “Fair Pay for Creators: International Solutions” and will discuss how creators can work together to identify, advocate for, and protect creator’s…

With the enactment of the DMCA in 1998, Section 512 of the US Copyright Act established what legislators refer to as a “safe harbor” to protect basic Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from copyright infringement liability.  At that time, the safe harbor exemption was adopted on the theory that ISPs merely provided access for Internet traffic…

Dear Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Hesse: The following comments are submitted by Music Creators North America, Inc. on behalf of a global coalition of half a million songwriters and composers from the United States, Canada and our global sister organizations, in response to the request from your Division for reaction to its oral report…