Music licensing in Argentina
Streaming music in your business isn't the same as listening to music at home. When you play music for an audience with a business and commercial purpose, you need different licenses.
Play it right
Soundtrack is built to bring you music that’s legal for your business. In Argentina, almost everything you need is included in your Soundtrack plan except for a public performance license.
Recording rights
Allows you to stream a specific sound recording of a song
Publishing rights
Allows you to stream the original composition
Change the way you play
Soundtrack offers an excellent selection of music because of our direct relationships with publishers, performing rights organizations and record labels. These include Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and more. Our technology accurately tracks your song plays, which ensures that music creators get the right payments from us. Soundtrack Unlimited makes royalty payments about 5 times higher than streaming services for private use.
Music for business
Avoid legal concerns when playing music in your business. Use a suitable music provider (like Soundtrack) and check that you have the correct licenses in place.
Personal music services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal and Deezer, are not approved for use in business environments.
Spotify
You can’t broadcast or play Spotify publicly from a business, such as bars, restaurants, schools, stores, salons, dance studios, radio stations, etc. To play in a commercial environment, check out our friends at Soundtrack.
Spotify for public or commercial useYouTube
You may access and use the Service as made available to you, as long as you comply with this Agreement and the law. You may view or listen to Content for your personal, non-commercial use.
YouTube Terms of ServiceDeezer
The use of the Site and Application is only authorized for a personal and private use, therefore any other use, particularly in public premises and for businesses, is strictly forbidden.
Deezer Terms and Conditions of UseApple
You may use the Services and Content only for personal, noncommercial purposes (except as set forth in the App Store Content section below or as otherwise specified by Apple).
Apple Media Services Terms and ConditionsAmazon Music
You may use the Services only for your personal, non-commercial purposes.
Amazon Music Terms of UseGet licensed
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If you don't have a public performance license from SADAIC, please visit their website.
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Music licensing in Argentina
Playing music in an Argentine business means paying two collecting bodies: SADAIC and AADI CAPIF. Each covers a different group of rights holders and bills separately.
SADAIC (Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música) has represented Argentine songwriters and composers since 1936, when it formed out of a merger between two earlier authors' societies. It licenses public performances of its members' work across the country and distributes the resulting royalties.
AADI CAPIF covers the other side: performers and phonographic producers. It's a partnership between AADI, representing performers, and CAPIF, representing record producers. What a business pays is collected once and split between them, 67% to AADI and 33% to CAPIF.
What counts as public performance is the thing worth understanding. The test isn't how many people are present or whether you charge entry, but whether the audience is decided in advance. A private event with a guest list falls outside it. A venue anyone can walk into — a café, restaurant, bar or club — falls inside, and the obligation to pay arises from the use itself rather than from asking permission first.
For food and drink venues there's a single tariff, set jointly by the Ministry of Justice and the former tourism secretariat, which takes account of things like occupancy and seasonality. Rates change several times a year, so ask for the current tariff in writing and check the category assigned to your premises is the right one.
Contact info
AADI CAPIF
SADAIC