The Canadian music rights organisation SOCAN has filed a lawsuit against AI music generation platform Suno, alleging widespread copyright infringement of its members' work. The legal action marks the latest in a rapidly growing wave of litigation against Suno from rights holders worldwide, and comes after SOCAN says its attempts to engage the company directly since its 2023 Canadian launch went nowhere.

SOCAN has identified at least 150 Suno-generated outputs it says largely or fully copy songs by its members, including Tom Cochrane's "Life is a Highway", Avril Lavigne's "Sk8er Boi" and Alexisonfire's "Passing Out In America", and has published a website comparing the originals with the AI outputs. The organisation is asking the court to force Suno to comply with copyright law and stop distributing infringing material, while stressing that songwriters are not opposed to AI but want to be paid when their work is used. The case follows other recent suits against Suno, including from Mexican publisher Gerencia 360 Music, a group of artists led by Jason Isbell, and Round Hill Music, which is separately seeking up to $1 billion in damages from Suno and Anthropic.