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The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is a Canadian
performance rights organization A performance rights organisation (PRO), also known as a performing rights society, provides intermediary functions, particularly collection of royalties, between copyright holders and parties who wish to use copyrighted works ''publicly'' in loca ...
that represents the performing rights of more than 135,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. The organization collects license fees through a music licensing program approved by the
Copyright Board of Canada The Copyright Board of Canada (french: Commission du droit d'auteur du Canada) is an economic regulatory body empowered to establish, either mandatorily or at the request of an interested party, the royalties to be paid for the use of copyrighted wo ...
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History

SOCAN is a result of a merger that took place in 1990 between the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada (CAPAC) and the Performing Rights Organization of Canada (PROCAN). In 2013, Front Row Insurance Brokers Inc. initiated an online musical instrument insurance program for members of various Canadian music associations, including SOCAN. In May 2016, SOCAN acquired the Seattle-based company Medianet Digital for an undisclosed amount; the organization planned to leverage the company's software and database of rights metadata to assist in the calculation and distribution of royalties for works on digital music streaming services. In July 2016, SOCAN acquired Audiam, a U.S. startup created by
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founder Jeff Price that specializes in managing the distribution of royalties for songs used on digital services such as
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, using a database of song recordings and metadata for identification. In July 2019, SOCAN partnered with Re:Sound to launch Entandem, a single online portal to collect both copyright and neighbouring rights royalties.


See also

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Entertainment Software Assn v Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada ''Entertainment Software Ass'n v. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada''2012 SCC 34 is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada judgement that clarified the nature of and relationship between, the bundle of rights created for copy ...
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Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v Bell Canada ''Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) v. Bell Canada''2012 SCC 36 is a leading Canadian case on the application of fair dealing under s. 29 of the Copyright Act. It pertained to the use of previews of musical works ...
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Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v Canadian Assn of Internet Providers ''Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v. Canadian Ass'n of Internet Providers'' 2 S.C.R. 427, - also known as the Tariff 22 case - is a leading decision by the Supreme Court of Canada on Internet service provider (ISP) li ...


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* Canadian copyright law Music licensing organizations Music organizations based in Canada 1989 establishments in Canada Organizations established in 1989 {{music-org-stub