Suno Sued by Canadian Music Rights Organization SOCAN for Copyright Infringement

The organization filed a lawsuit against the AI music platform for allegedly infringing at least 150 songs within its repertoire.

The Canadian music rights organization has filed a legal claim against the AI music generation app, claiming that it has unlawfully infringed on its members’ work.

SOCAN has put forward a subset of 150 AI outputs generated by Suno that largely or fully infringe on material from its member rightsholders, dating back to Suno’s introduction to the Canadian market in 2023.

Along with the lawsuit, SOCAN has launched a special website showcasing a number of Suno outputs side-by-side with the songs they are allegedly infringing on. Those include major hits like Tom Cochrane’s “Life is a Highway,” Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er Boi” and even post-hardcore band Alexisonfire’s “Passing Out In America.” Listen here.

She adds that given the direct competition between outputs generated by Suno and the music created by human artists, it is important for songwriters to be fairly compensated.

Simultaneously, the company has embraced AI as a tool, recently partnering with Musical AI as a technology partner to help identify AI-generated outputs and properly attribute credit to songwriters and composers when their work is used by AI.

Suno is under legal fire by numerous labels and companies around the world, a snowball effect that has picked up over the past week. On Monday (Aug. 31), Mexican music label and publisher Gerencia 360 Music sued Suno for also allegedly ripping off songs from its own database to make AI-generated songs, followed by a group of artists led by acclaimed singer-songwriter Jason Isbell, who sued on Tuesday (Sept.

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