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      Music Licensees:

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      • New licensees: 1.866.944.6210
      • licence@socan.ca

      Editor in Chief:

      • Howard Druckman
      • druckmanh@socan.ca

      Read more »

      About Us

      Words + Music is the online magazine of SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. Just as SOCAN was formed in 1990 by the merger of its predecessor Canadian performing rights organizations PROCAN and CAPAC, their separate magazines merged in 1994 to form Words + Music. Our mission is to provide interesting, high-quality content about the increasingly exciting and

      Read more »

      SOCAN Song of the Week

      Sarahmée - SOCAN Song of the Week

      Read more »

      Video: Red Carpet Interviews from 2023 SOCAN Gala – Part 1

      Video: Red Carpet Interviews from 2023 SOCAN Gala – Part 1

      Plume, Banx & Ranx, Ginette Reno, Nathalie Bonin, Roxane Bruneau, Mathieu Brisset

      Speaking Out: SOCAN advocates politically for music creators

      Currently lobbying government on several key issues

      President’s Message: The accelerating pace of change

      Adapting to constant, disruptive technological shifts

      All From the Top »

      Catalogue Acquisition Deals

      Catalogue Acquisition Deals

      Legal considerations for creators

      Composition vs Master – Breaking Down Music Copyrights

      What are the differences?

      Building a career in France: challenges, sacrifices, dreams, reality

      The export strategies of Klô Pelgag, Fredz, Aliocha, Patrick Watson and Billy du Page

      All Sound Advice »

      Lysandre: Portrait of a Young Woman on Fire

      Lysandre: Portrait of a Young Woman on Fire

      Meet the latest recipient of the SOCAN-presented Félix-Leclerc Song Award.

      Jean-François Denis: Electroacoustic Music Trailblazer

      The 2026 Christopher J. Reed Award is presented to Jean-François Denis, co-founder of the record label empreintes DIGITALes, which is entirely devoted to electroacoustic music.

      How Matthew Tishler’s pop ambitions led to his Emmy winning reality

      Matthew Tishler won’t soon forget March 1. Sat in the balcony at Jazz at the Lincoln Center for the fourth annual Children’s and Family Emmy Awards, the Canadian songwriter heard his name called not once but twice.  “I did not expect in a million years … to win twice, let alone once!” says the Canadian songwriter and producer on Zoom from ...

      All Features »

      SOCAN Responds to the Government of Canada’s National AI Strategy

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      SOCAN welcomes the recognition of AI output transparency as a core principle in the Government of Canada’s National AI Strategy (the “Strategy”). At a moment of once in a generation technological change, it is vital that Canada’s laws be updated to ensure music creators’ rights are protected, including by requiring the labelling and identification of AI-generated content.   However, we recognize that this is just a first step in adapting Canada’s legal framework to address AI technology’s impact on the ...

      41st Gémeaux Awards: Several SOCAN members nominated in the music categories

      The 41st Gémeaux Documentary and Technical Awards Gala will take place on September 11 in Montréal.

      Here are the 40 albums on the 2026 Polaris Music Prize Long List

      On an especially hot summer day at the NXNE Artist House in downtown Toronto, artists, music journalists, and industry reps gathered together to kick off the 2026 Polaris Music Prize. Forty albums were long listed for Prize, with nominee highlights including 13 first timers and three former winners (Kaytranada, Tanya Tagaq, Daphni’s Dan Snaith, who won as Caribou.) Many of this year’s nominees were in attendance for the announcement.   Every year, the Polaris Music Prize jury — comprised of critics, journalists, and creators — puts forth recommendations for the best Canadian albums. This year, 205 jurors recommended 202 records to be ...

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