About Us
Everyone has a right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
— UN Declaration of Human Rights, Article 27 (2)
The Creators’ Rights Alliance (CRA) / L’Alliance pour les droits des créateurs (ADC) is a coalition of national artists’ associations and collectives responsible for managing authors’ rights, which is devoted to the defense, the promotion and the protection of the interests of Canadian creators in relation to intellectual property. We are the writers, visual artists, directors, composers and musicians, and other authors and performers working in all disciplines and media, whose creative expressions not only reflect Canada to Canadians and to global audiences, but challenge us to think about what we can become. The Alliance is organized around the principle that creators’ rights are fundamental to Canadian society.
The mandate of the CRA is to advance, protect and strengthen the economic and moral interests of Canadian creators, to study issues raised by trade policy and international treaties, to increase creators’ awareness and understanding of their economic and moral rights and to strengthen these rights consistent with Article 27 (2) of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and in the carrying out of these purposes to co-operate and exchange information with organizations representing creators’ in other countries.
We share with our colleagues in the International Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD) and the Coalition for Cultural Diversity (CCD) a concern about the consequences of trade agreements on the ability of the Canadian government to implement cultural policy and measures to support creators, producers, distributors, exhibitors and heritage institutions. We will work together to achieve an international convention that will provide a permanent legal foundation for measures which promote cultural diversity, in addition to developing other necessary strategies to protect creators’ rights.