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The SPACQ was founded in 1981, they now serve 600 members. It works principally to help their members with the protection and development of financial, social and professional interests of their members. The SPACQ will mostly draw up contracts and put down minimum pay for composers. They work wit...

The SPACQ was founded in 1981, they now serve 600 members. It works principally to help their members with the protection and development of financial, social and professional interests of their members. The SPACQ will mostly draw up contracts and put down minimum pay for composers. They work with the AQPM which hires composers for movies and tv. They also work with the TVA network and Radio-Canada. The SPACQ does not send money to their members, as they only help draw up contracts between their members and employers. The SOCAN is responsible for sending composers their copyright money. They are also responsible for mechanical licenses that people need to get to u se a composer’s song in their own works, or if they want to cover a song. They are working for around 175 000 composers. They are present in 214 countries where they collect royalties for their artists, while they collaborate with more than 100 copyright collectives. They will also pay a composer if their music is played live (either by the composer or someone else covering the song.) The Socan also offers social events where composers can meet other professionals in the field and with these connections potentially have more job opportunities. They also offer workshops. It is fairly easy to register with the SOCAN. There are no direct fees, although the person registering has to register one of their current works to be admissible. The socan will take care of taxes for the composers, therefore the composer will not have to pay taxes directly. The APEM works with publishers. Publishers work with composers to sell their music and to provide music to companies or to showcase a composers work to try and get the composer hired to compose music for a film or video games or things of the like. They organize panels so that also brings publishers together and gets them to share their catalogs. In today’s world, a publisher might not be as needed as a few years ago, with the internet self- promotion is fairly easy. I was happy to find that there are resources for composers to get good contracts and have their royalties paid. Though I am curious as to how it works in Japan where the music industry is seemingly booming.