AVLA

News and Updates

CBC and AVLA announce Historic Music Licensing Deal
January 24, 2012

CBC and the Audio-Video Licensing Agency (AVLA) are pleased to announce that a groundbreaking music licensing deal has been reached.  This historic deal will allow CBC to offer Canadians more of its radio programs on-line, on demand, as well as launch a new Canadian digital music service this winter.

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Canada's First Collective Semi Interactive Digital Licence
August 2011

AVLA has concluded Canada's first semi-interactive digital licensing agreement with Stingray Digital Media on behalf of over 1500 record labels.  This truly historic agreement was concluded in partnership with the major labels and SOPROQ, and lays the groundwork to bring in more new services to Canada!

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Pro-music

Pro-music is a new coalition for people and organisations working across the music sector to highlight the damage being done by online music piracy.

Welcome
May 2010

Welcome to AVLA's new website. We have introduced new online features to make it easier than ever to take advantage of the services AVLA offers. If you own or control the copyright in sound recordings and/or music videos, we can collect licence fees for certain uses on your behalf, and we can pay you neighbouring rights and private copying revenues for your eligible sound recordings. More Info

If you want to copy sound recordings for entertainment to the public and want to copy and perform music videos for entertainment to the public, we offer licences for certain types of use. More Info

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