Advocacy

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SOCAN fights for the legal, fair and ethical use of our members' music, and advocates for all of our members, whether songwriters, lyricists, concert music composers, film scorers, music publishers, or other types of music creators. SOCAN lobbies the federal government to ensure the most favourable possible conditions for our members, and especially to advocate for fair compensation for the use of their work. Similarly, SOCAN appears before the Copyright Board of Canada to pursue new tariffs for new uses of our members' music; to pursue better rates for our members on existing tariffs; to represent the rights of our members in hearings; or to oppose representations by those music user groups or organizations that we believe are not fairly compensating our members.

PUP

PUP's first single “Reservoir” was one of 10 songs nominated for a SOCAN Songwriting Prize in 2014. Their first album was long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize in 2014, and their second made the 10-album short list for the prize in 2016. PUP won two Bucky Awards from CBC Radio 3 in 2013. Rolling Stone magazine listed PUP as one of 2014's "breakout rock acts," and they've been nominated for three JUNO Awards. The band of SOCAN members has toured relentlessly across North America, and brought their intense, high-energy punk rock to such key festivals such as NXNE, Halifax Pop Explosion, Pop Montréal, and CMW.