Canadian music-rights group SOCAN announces lawsuit against Suno over alleged unauthorized use of music

What happened

The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has announced that it sued Suno for the unauthorized use of songs in SOCAN's repertoire. On its litigation page, SOCAN says Suno built its generative AI platform by training without consent on virtually all readily accessible online music, and makes available and publicly streams AI-generated outputs that replicate songs in SOCAN's repertoire, without permission or compensation. The page lists a sample of 150 Suno outputs that SOCAN says are identical or substantially similar to songs in its repertoire, and states that SOCAN has neither issued a licence to Suno nor received any royalty payments from it.

Why it may matter to you

This is the first Canadian collecting-society action against a generative music platform, and it is built on documented output matches rather than only on training-data allegations.

What is not yet known

SOCAN's statement of claim itself could not be retrieved - the 'Read the Statement of Claim' link on its page redirects to SOCAN's homepage - so the filing date, court file number and the claim's full contents are not yet confirmed from a primary document.