Re:Sound Music Licensing

What Re:Sound Music Licensing does

Re:Sound Music Licensing is a Toronto-based Canadian music licensing company, founded in 1997 and structured as a not-for-profit collective management organization. The company's function is the administration of public performance rights for recorded music: it issues licences to businesses and other music users, collects licence fees, and distributes the resulting royalties to its rights-holder members. The organization operates from its website at resound.ca and serves the Canadian market.

The firm employs 101-250 staff and is led by President and CEO Lou Ragagnin, with governance provided by a board of directors chaired by Anthony Ariganello. Denis Dinsmore serves as Vice President, Finance & Administration, indicating an operational finance and compliance function consistent with a tariff-regulated collective that must account for royalty flows to members. The organization is privately held, with no parent company, subsidiary, or investor relationships disclosed in the available data.

Re:Sound's revenue model is the standard Canadian collective-management model: licence fees are collected from music users (typically broadcasters, retailers, hospitality venues, fitness operators, and event organizers) under tariffs administered or approved by the Copyright Board of Canada, and the resulting funds are distributed to rights holders net of administration costs. As a not-for-profit, the organization is not profit-distributing; its scale is best measured by gross collections and distribution volume rather than conventional profit metrics. The input data does not disclose tariff schedules, licensee counts, or distribution volumes, limiting deeper financial analysis.

Name

Re:Sound Music Licensing

Website

https://resound.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Re:Sound Music Licensing is a Canadian not-for-profit music licensing collective, founded in 1997 and headquartered in Toronto. The company administers public performance rights for recorded music, issuing licences to music users and distributing collected royalties to its rights-holder members.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Music Licensing and Rights Administration

NAICS

Music Publishers (512230), Music Publishers (51223), Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries (512)

akta.pro primary industry

Performing Rights Organizations (PROs) & Public Performance Licensing (MPAIAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Public Performance/Neighboring Rights for AV Uses (Cue Sheet & Reporting Services) (MPAIALAK)

Keywords

• Music licensing
• Performance rights
• Neighbouring rights
• Music royalties
• Copyright licensing

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Re:Sound is the Canadian not-for-profit music licensing company that administers rights and collects royalties on behalf of recording artists, performers, and record labels for the public performance and broadcast use of their sound recordings. It issues licences to businesses and organizations that use recorded music commercially, and distributes collected royalties back to rights holders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Music Use Licences (Public Performance and Broadcast of Sound Recordings) Licences issued to Canadian businesses, venues, and broadcasters that publicly perform or broadcast recorded music, providing copyright compliance for the use of sound recordings on behalf of recording artists, performers, and record labels.
• Neighbouring Rights Royalty Collection and Distribution Collection of licensing fees from music users in Canada and distribution of those royalties to eligible recording artists, performers, and record labels whose sound recordings are publicly performed or broadcast.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Direct peers

• CSI (Connect Music Licensing, formerly CBC/SODRAC): Canadian reproduction rights collective, adjacent to Re:Sound in the Canadian collective-licensing ecosystem serving music users.
• SoundExchange: US-based non-profit collective that administers neighbouring rights for sound recording public performance — the closest direct functional peer to Re:Sound in the Canadian market.
• PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited): UK collective licensing neighbouring rights for recorded music played in public — a like-for-like international peer with the same mandate as Re:Sound.
• SOCAN: Canadian PRO administering performing rights for musical works/compositions; a sister Canadian collective covering complementary (composition, not sound recording) rights.

Broad incumbents

• ASCAP: US PRO administering public performance rights for musical compositions; comparable collective-management model though it covers composition rights rather than neighbouring rights.
• BMI: US PRO with similar mandate to ASCAP, representing a peer collective-management organisation model in the broader licensing ecosystem Re:Sound operates in.

Regional players

• PRS for Music: UK PRO for musical works; comparable collective-management organisation outside Canada, providing a benchmark for international peer operations.
• GEMA: German PRO for musical works; another major international collective with analogous governance and tariff-setting structure.
• SACEM: French collective for authors, composers and publishers of music; comparable PRO model and reciprocal partner for cross-border royalty flows.

Others

• IFPI: International federation representing the recording industry globally; a key stakeholder and counterpart that shapes the environment in which Re:Sound operates.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ReSoundMLC

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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