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SOCAN sues Suno in Canada's Federal Court over training and streaming of near-identical AI-generated songs

2 sept 2026 · Recopilado automáticamente de fuentes públicas. No revisado por una persona.

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What happened

On 2 September 2026, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) filed a statement of claim against Suno in Canada's Federal Court. SOCAN, which collects performance royalties on behalf of more than 185,000 Canadian musicians and publishers, alleges Suno trained its generative music models on its members' music without consent or licences — obtained through "mass ingestion, copying, and processing" of virtually all reasonable-quality music available online, including user uploads — and that Suno then makes available and publicly streams AI-generated outputs that replicate songs in SOCAN's repertoire.

The filing lists about 150 Suno outputs in an appendix, each alleged to be "identical or substantially similar" to a protected work, with note-for-note comparisons of lyrics, melody and harmony: Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now", Avril Lavigne's "Sk8er Boi" (a "K-pop remix" with Korean lyrics), Tom Cochrane's "Life is a Highway", Bryan Adams' "Heaven" (Russian-language cover), plus "Blinding Lights", "Call Me Maybe", "Hallelujah", "Man-eater" and "Save Your Tears", among others. SOCAN calls Suno's post-launch guardrails "woefully inadequate" evidence the company knows its conduct is unlawful.

SOCAN seeks a permanent injunction (reaching songs "that do not yet exist"), Suno's profits or, alternatively, C$20,000 in statutory damages per infringed work, plus C$10 million in punitive and exemplary damages.

Why it may matter to you

This is the first major collecting-society suit against a generative music platform in Canada — a jurisdiction with no fair-use defence and a closed list of fair-dealing purposes. It follows GEMA's July 2026 win against Suno in Munich and the U.S. label suits, extending the Suno litigation line to a third jurisdiction.

What is not yet known

The Federal Court file number; Suno's response; whether the training-ingestion claim or the output-streaming claim leads.

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