Canadian Publishing Industry News
25 January 2025,     OTTAWA
Access Copyright Three Year Plan
 
three-year transitional plan,
three-year transitional plan,
With this three-year transitional plan, Access Copyright is affirming its mission, vision, and values, and how it serves its members, affiliates, and customers. As we look to the future, we acknowledge our current challenges and recognize that we have an opportunity to address them in new ways, through relationship building and by strengthening our services. Access Copyright is in a period of change and transformation. During the period from 2025 to 2028, the organization will stabilize revenues and strengthen operations. It will maintain its focus on the core business of licensing copyrighted material and distributing royalties to rights holders. Revenues from licensing have declined precipitously over the past decade (falling by 79% since the modifications brought to the Copyright Act in 2012). These revenues continued to decline in 2023 and 2024. In recent years, strong investment revenues have somewhat compensated for the loss of sales. However, these cannot be counted on in downward markets. At the same time, past investments in litigation and innovation have reduced organizational reserves. With this three-year transitional plan, Access Copyright is affirming its mission, vision, and values, and how it serves its members, affiliates, and customers. As we look to the future, we acknowledge our current challenges and recognize that we have an opportunity to address them in new ways, through relationship building and by strengthening our services.Full report https://www.accesscopyright.ca/media/1696/access_copyright_2025_2028_strategic_plan.pdf
 
Voice of creators and publishers in Canada
Voice of creators and publishers in Canada
Access Copyright is a collective voice of creators and publishers in Canada. A non-profit, national organization, we represent tens of thousands of Canadian writers, visual artists and publishers, and their works. They  license the copying of this repertoire to educational institutions, businesses, governments and others. The proceeds gathered when content is copied, remixed and shared are passed along to the copyright-holders.
 
 
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