PROPOSED TARIFF
Filed with the Copyright Board by SOCAN on 2021-10-15 pursuant to subsection 67(1) of the Copyright Act
Proposed Tariff Title: SOCAN Tariff 8, Receptions, Conventions, Assemblies and Fashion Shows (2023-2025)
For the public performance of musical or dramatico-musical works
Effective Period: 2023-01-01 – 2025-12-31
SOCAN TARIFF 8, RECEPTIONS, CONVENTIONS, ASSEMBLIES AND FASHION SHOWS (2023-2025)
Proposed statement of royalties to be collected by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) in compensation for the right to perform in public, in Cana da, musical or dramatico-musical works forming part of its repertoire.
GENERAL PROVISIONS All amounts payable under this tariff are exclusive of any federal, provincial or other governmental taxes or levies of any kind.
As used in this tariff, the terms “licence” and “licence to perform” mean a licence to perf orm in public or to authorize the performance in public.
Except where otherwise specified, fees payable for any licence granted by SOCAN shall be due and payable upon grant of the licence. Any amount not received by the due date shall bear interest from that date until the date the amount is received. Interest shall be calculated daily, at a rate equal to one per cent above the Bank Rate effective on the last day of the previous month (as published by the Bank of Canada). Interest shall not compound.
Each licence shall subsist according to the terms set out herein. SOCAN shall have the right at any time to terminate a licence for breach of terms or conditions upon 30 days’ notice in writing.
Published by the Copyright Board of Canada, in accordance with section 68.2 of the Copyright Act, on 3 November 2021
Tariff No. 8 RECEPTIONS, CONVENTIONS, ASSEMBLIES AND FASHION SHOWS For a licence to perform, at any time and as often as desired in the years 2023 to 2025, any or all of the works in SOCAN’s repertoire as part of events at receptions, conventions, assemblies and fashion shows, the fee payable for each event, or for each day on which a fashion show is held, is as follows:
Room Capacity (seating and standing)
1–100
101–300
301–500
Over 500
Fee per Event
Without Dancing
$26.16
$37.61
$78.49
$111.21
With Dancing
$52.33
$75.29
$156.99
$222.40
No later than 30 days after the end of each quarter, the licensee shall file with SOCAN a report for that quarter of the actual number of events with and without dancing and of the number of days on which a fashion show was held. The report shall also include the room capacity (seating and standing) authorized under the establishment’s liquor licence or any other document issued by a competent authority for this type of establishment, and payment of the licence fees.
SOCAN shall have the right to audit the licensee’s books and records, on reasonable notice and during normal business hours, to verify the statements rendered and the fee payable by the licensee.
Published by the Copyright Board of Canada, in accordance with section 68.2 of the Copyright Act, on 3 November 2021