Photo by New York Said on Unsplash SOCAN (Society of composers, authors and music publishers of Canada) is Canada’s largest not-for-profit music rights organization. Musical works from ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ to ‘Houdini’ form part of the 150 ‘listed works’ that SOCAN allege Suno has encouraged users to generate and share on their platform. A peruse through the list reminds this millennial Kat of how many Canadian greats shaped her adolescence (e.g. Mac Demarco, Nelly Furtado and Avril Lavigne), but its focus on Canadian authors, unlike GEMA’s Suno litigation, offers an additional lens to reflect on the interplay between copyright, culture and technology. Copyright infringement claims focused on output, not training AI models While the complaint explains that Suno’s training dataset involves all ‘music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the Internet’ and user uploads of music files – and thus – concluding that its model has memorized many of these works; its infringem...