Canada · Performance + reproduction
SOCAN
What counts as black box here
Unidentified performances (e.g. missing TV cue sheets) stay unidentified while documentation is requested, visible in the member portal with claim tools. Incomplete internet licensee data is allocated using other licensees' programming in the quarter.
Mini box
Lit: compartments used and exit chute(s).
Its rules
Follows its own constitution and distribution rules, set by its members rather than a single statute.
- Rights it handles
- Performance + reproduction
- Holds a pool?
- Unidentified performances held
- Evidence level
- Official policy only
How it distributes money
How often matched money is paid out, and how members can find what's theirs.
- Payment cadence
- Performing quarterly; reproduction Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec
- Data maturity tier
- C
How it handles unresolved royalties
How long money waits, when the clock starts, and where it goes if nobody claims it.
- Holding clock
- Not publicly disclosed
- Clock starts
- Not publicly disclosed
- Exit chute
- Proxy allocation (internet licensees)
- Late claims after expiry
- 1-yr concert-evidence deadline (a claim rule)
Lifecycle path
- 1
Collect
Licensing income
- 2
Request docs
Cue sheets and evidence requested
- 3
Claim
Member portal claims
- 4
Proxy
Incomplete internet data allocated
Quarterly
Published figures
No balance publicly disclosed (not the same as zero)