Music licensing in Colombia
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 Colombia, 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 OSA, please visit their website.
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Music licensing in Colombia
Playing music in your business in Colombia means dealing with two collecting societies: SAYCO and ACINPRO. The good news is they work together, so you don't have to negotiate with each one separately.
SAYCO (Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Colombia) is the country's authors' rights society, representing songwriters and composers. It came together in 1945, when a group of figures from Colombian theatre and music set out to defend creators' economic rights, and was granted formal legal status the following year. Its first president was the composer Lucho Bermúdez.
ACINPRO (Asociación Colombiana de Intérpretes y Productores Fonográficos) represents performers and phonographic producers — the people and companies behind the actual recordings. Authorized as a collecting society in 1982, ACINPRO makes sure performers and producers get paid whenever their recordings are played publicly.
Since 1985, SAYCO and ACINPRO have collected together through the Organización Sayco Acinpro (OSA), which handles licensing for businesses open to the public. That means Colombian businesses can apply and pay in one place, at www.osa.org.co, instead of dealing with each society separately.
Contact info
ACINPRO
OSA
SAYCO