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February 4, 2009

CMCC Congratulates its 2009 Juno Award Nominees

Another year, another list of CMCC members nominated for Juno Awards.  This year, four members of the Canadian Music Creators Coalition have been nominated for a total of eight Junos including Sam Roberts (for Artist of the Year, Rock Album of the Year for Love at the End of the World, and two Video of the Year nominations: for Detroit ‘67 and Them Kids); Feist (who is nominated for the Juno Fan Choice Award and Video of the Year for Honey Honey) Sloan (Rock Album of the Year for Parallel Play) and The Barenaked Ladies (Children’s Album of the Year for Snacktime!).

Congratulations to all the nominated artists who show that commercial success and an interest in artist self-representation can, and do, go hand in hand.

December 10, 2008

CMCC’s Safwan Javed Tells It Like It Is in Michael Geist film, Why Copyright

June 12, 2008

CMCC: Copyright Reform Bill Doesn’t Help Canadian Artists

December 21, 2007

CMCC Calls on Ministry to Conduct Copyright Consultation

December 6, 2007

CMCC Applauds Songwriters’ Approach to Filesharing