Important Message from Access Copyright’s Co-Chairs
Please join with us in proudly welcoming the Access Copyright cultural fund into our world. It is destined to make a modest but critically important contribution to Canadian cultural life, and to broaden public awareness of the creative vitality of Canadian writers, visual artists, and publishers, both here and abroad.
We began charting this new course back in December 2008, when the board of directors of Access Copyright, composed of equal numbers of elected representatives from publisher and creator organizations, agreed to set up the fund. Collectively, we recognized that after 21 years of existence we have the maturity and the resources to support this important re-investment in the Canadian cultural community.
Access Copyright has proudly joined ranks with other RRO’s around the world to celebrate and enhance the economic and creative environment in which our affiliate creators and publishers operate. As other collective societies have done before us, we too are now setting up a cultural fund that will provide financial support to encourage the development and dissemination of publishable Canadian works.
The cultural fund is to be launched with a one-time contribution of $3 million from royalties accumulated by Access Copyright for the use of works that cannot be identified. It will be sustained by an allocation of 1.5% of copyright licensing revenues collected, or about $600,000 annually, from January 1, 2009 onwards. This is a formula that is common to most collectives. The cultural fund will be administered by the Access Copyright Foundation, with its own Board and officers.
The Access Copyright cultural fund will provide resources for a wide variety of events and projects designed to support Canadian culture including research, professional development and special events such as conferences. Publishers and creators will be equally eligible for funding.
As we mentioned, the cultural fund is a re-investment of resources back into the creative and publishing community. Most collective management organizations around the world use funds like this to promote their national arts and culture. Like them, we intend to have an impact that is positive and tangible.
Sincerely,
Michael OReilly, Creator Co-Chair and Bill Zerter, Publisher Co-Chair
Please join with us in proudly welcoming the Access Copyright cultural fund into our world. It is destined to make a modest but critically important contribution to Canadian cultural life, and to broaden public awareness of the creative vitality of Canadian writers, visual artists, and publishers, both here and abroad.
We began charting this new course back in December 2008, when the board of directors of Access Copyright, composed of equal numbers of elected representatives from publisher and creator organizations, agreed to set up the fund. Collectively, we recognized that after 21 years of existence we have the maturity and the resources to support this important re-investment in the Canadian cultural community.
Access Copyright has proudly joined ranks with other RRO’s around the world to celebrate and enhance the economic and creative environment in which our affiliate creators and publishers operate. As other collective societies have done before us, we too are now setting up a cultural fund that will provide financial support to encourage the development and dissemination of publishable Canadian works.
The cultural fund is to be launched with a one-time contribution of $3 million from royalties accumulated by Access Copyright for the use of works that cannot be identified. It will be sustained by an allocation of 1.5% of copyright licensing revenues collected, or about $600,000 annually, from January 1, 2009 onwards. This is a formula that is common to most collectives. The cultural fund will be administered by the Access Copyright Foundation, with its own Board and officers.
The Access Copyright cultural fund will provide resources for a wide variety of events and projects designed to support Canadian culture including research, professional development and special events such as conferences. Publishers and creators will be equally eligible for funding.
As we mentioned, the cultural fund is a re-investment of resources back into the creative and publishing community. Most collective management organizations around the world use funds like this to promote their national arts and culture. Like them, we intend to have an impact that is positive and tangible.
Sincerely,
Michael OReilly, Creator Co-Chair and Bill Zerter, Publisher Co-Chair