Canadian Retransmission Collective (CRC)
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The CRC Origin Story: Since 1990, Canadian law required those benefiting financially from retransmitting audiovisual works to compensate the owners of those works. Satellite, cable, and other retransmitters began to pay for the “retransmission right” created as part of Canadian copyright reform and the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
The CRC was founded by the industry associations that went on to become the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA). Our mission is to collect royalties for the retransmission of “distant signals” in Canada and distribute these royalties to our rights-holders – film and television producers from across Canada and around the world.
Retransmission of distant signals occurs when a satellite, cable, or other telecommunications company picks up over-the-air broadcast signals and retransmits them to its own subscribers who live outside the normal reach of those broadcast signals. These companies are required to compensate rightsholders for the use of their programs in these retransmitted broadcast signals.
