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.

July Talk

The push and pull between July Talk’s gravel-voiced Peter Dreimanis and his fellow front-person Leah Fay fuels July Talk’s unique indie rock. In both 2015 and 2017, the band won JUNO Awards for Alternative Album of the Year, and both recordings went gold in Canada. With incendiary live shows, this band of SOCAN members has won devoted fans touring worldwide, playing top festivals like WayHome and Osheaga. Their 2016 album Touch was released in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, while “Push + Pull,” the album’s first single, held the No. 1 spot on the Canadian Alternative Radio charts for more than 12 weeks.