Université Laval payment made and artist payment coming soon

Yale report released and news from the European copyright reform.

Executive Director’s update

The year is now well underway and your copyright collective’s operations are up to full speed. After paying the royalties received from Université Laval, our team is currently preparing a payment for visual artists and planning the next fiscal year.

Université Laval

At the start of February, the financial component of the lawsuit involving copyright owners and Université Laval was officially concluded. The royalties were paid out to the relevant authors and publishers. A total of $1,729,218 was distributed among nearly 6,000 authors and other rightsholders. An amount of $181,300 in compensatory moral rights damages was also paid to the authors whose content was reproduced by the university in 2013-2014.

Copibec is definitely pleased with this outcome and is optimistic about working collaboratively with Université Laval in the future.

Visual artist payment

This is a month that all the visual artists have been eagerly awaiting: registration season for the visual artist payment is now open. Copibec will pay royalties to visual arts creators whose content was reproduced in Quebec paper-format publications. The distributed amounts were generated under licensing agreements with content users such as the education, private and government sectors.

If you have a Copibec account, check your inbox. You may find a reminder from us asking you to register for this payment! Nothing in your inbox? Read our news update for complete details. You could be eligible!

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Frédérique Couette
Executive Director

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Read the article from CBC.

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Read the article from Les Echos.

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