Music licensing in Denmark
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 most cases, everything you need is included in your plan. If you charge admission fees, play live music or timing music to exercise classes you may need additional permissions.
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, notably in public premises and businesses, is strictly forbidden.
Terms of Use for the Deezer Free ServiceApple
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 public performance licenses from Koda, please visit their website.
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Music licensing in Denmark
Overview The Danish Composers Society, or Dansk Komponistforening, is most commonly known as Koda. The name stands for Komponisternes og sangskrivernes organisation, meaning the organization of composers and songwriters. Operating as a non-profit organization to collect and distribute music royalties, Koda is a member of CISAC, The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers. Gramex exists to collect and distribute royalties related to public performance. History Copenhagen based Koda is one of the oldest collecting societies in the world, having existed since 1923. It was founded with the ambition of creating an economically fair music market, as has become an important part of the Danish music industry by collecting and distributing royalties for composters, songwriters and music publishers. In 1967, Gramex was founded. The Danish Ministry for Cultural Affairs approved the organization to work with royalties for artists and labels, in relation to the Danish Copyright Act. How to get a license Those in need of a music license from Koda can reach out directly to the licensing department by phone or email on any weekday between 9am to 4pm. Costs will vary and the allocation of a suitable tariff will depend on how the music is going to be used, how it will be played, the type of business that you have and the amount of potential listeners that you will have in your business.
Contact info
Gramex
Koda