SOCAN is Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada.
"SOCAN is the Canadian copyright collective that administers the performing rights of more than 90,000 composer, author and music publisher members by licensing the use of their music in Canada. We collect license fees on their behalf and distribute royalties to them."
Canadians also copyright, or SOCAN copyrights for them, in the US and internationally.

Stan Rogers died, at the young age of 33, in a fire on board an Air Canada flight on the ground in Cincinnati International Airport.