SOCAN Writers  Royalties by

The number of songwriter and 

Distribution Pool, 2003 ($000)

composer members who received

Television  

royalties jumped from just over

Radio and General 

Broadcast 7,517

5,775

16,000 in 1999 to over 19,500 

Television 

Concerts 

Cable 4,196

1,225

in 2003.

Cinema 12

Pay Audio 

302

Distributions of Performing

Rights Royalties to SOCAN

International Affiliated 

Members 

Societies 36,039

International royalties was the largest sin 

Total 55,066

gle source for SOCAN songwriters and

Source: SOCAN

composers in 2003, accounting for 65.4%

Note: Excludes any special cable arrears, pay audio arrears,

cable overhead rates and private copy distributions.

of the total distributions to them, or 

$36.0 million, compared with $28.4 million

the year before. Among domestic sources,

For publishers, radio was the biggest

broadcast television provided the largest

source of royalties, with $12.3 million in

share of royalties to writers and composers

distributions, followed by broadcast tele 

($7.5 million) up 3.7% from 2002, fol 

vision ($10.3 million) and royalties from

lowed by radio ($5.8 million) and cable

international affiliated organizations

television ($4.2 million). Pay audio services

($10.3 million).

provided royalties for the first time in 2003,

amounting to $302,000. Disbursements

from concerts rose 16.1% to $1.2 million

in 2003, while cinema royalties stayed

flat at $12,000.

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