The USA's two leading performance rights organisations ASCAP and BMI alongside Canada's SOCAN have adopted policies under which musical compositions partially generated using artificial intelligence (AI)...
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has sued in Federal Court the organisers of Quebec City's Festival d'Été de Québec (FEQ)...
The Federal Court of Appeal in Canada has granted music rights society SOCAN leave to intervene in the current judicial review of the media regulator Canadian...
For the first time in its history, Canadian music rights society SOCAN has posted total annual revenue in excess of half a billion Canadian dollars for...
Hangout FM, a new social platform launched by Turntable Labs, is ramping up its licensing efforts with the signing of two agreements with music rights societies...
SOCAN has experienced a significant increase in collections in 2022 compared to the previous year, with the Canadian music rights society posting record revenue of CA$484...
SOCAN has appointed Tanya Van Luven as its new Director of Publisher Relations, within the Canadian society's Membership department. Based in Toronto, she will oversee the...
Canadian rights society SOCAN has appointed Alexandre Alonso as Executive Director of Québec Affairs. Alonso is based in Montréal and is "a key element" of the...
Canadian rights society representing visual artists Copyright Visual Arts/Droit d'Auteurs en Arts Visuels (COVA-DAAV) has reached an agreement with rights society SOCAN that will see the...
Alexander Mair, the Canadian music industry executive who co-founded Attic Records with Tom Williams in 1974, has died of cancer aged 82 at Sunnybrook Hospital in...
