Certification Register

Certification Order

The Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal hereby grants to the

Guild of Canadian Film Composers

certification to represent a sector composed of all professional independent contractors engaged by a producer subject to the Status of the Artist Act to perform the function of author, composer or author-composer, including all the associated work required by these functions, in order to deliver to the producer music, lyrics, and music with lyrics where the said music or lyrics are intended for film, videotape, digital media or any other audiovisual media or analogous process, or any other process now known or to be invented which modifies or replaces the aforementioned technology and processes, with the exception of:

The artists covered by the certification granted to the Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec (SPACQ) by the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal on May 17, 1996, as amended by the Tribunal on May 20, 2003, and September 8, 2003.

And subject to:

1. The agreement concluded between the Guild of Canadian Film Composers and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) on May 6, 2002; and
   
   
2. The agreement concluded between the Guild of Canadian Film Composers and the Société du droit de reproduction des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs au Canada(SODRAC) Inc. on May 13, 2002.

Ottawa, May 23, 2003
Amended September 8, 2003

[Last renewed for an additional three years on May 23, 2009]