Music licensing in Italy
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
Public performance rights
Allows you to stream the song in a public environment
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
Get your correct business licenses
If you don't have public performance licenses from ITSRIGHT, Nuovo Imaie, or SIAE, please visit their websites.
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Music licensing in Italy
Playing music in your business requires a little more effort than just pressing play. Italy's music licensing landscape is somewhat : in Italy, all businesses wishing to play music on-site need licenses from the relevant collecting societies, which could include SCF, SIAE and Soundreef. Italy's oldest performing rights organization is SIAE (Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori). Founded in 1882, SIAE is one of the world's largest collecting societies, boasting a membership in the fields of film, literature, music, performing arts, theater and visual arts. When it comes to music, SIAE protects the performance rights of authors and publishers, as well as distributing royalties to its' members. The second major player in music licensing in Italy is SCF (Società Consortile Fonografici). SCF was created in 1988 in response to a gap in the Italian market for rights protection for record labels. Soundreef is a relative newcomer to Italy's music licensing scene. Soundreef's focus is on protecting performance rights of authors, composers and publishers. For any business playing music on-site in Italy, the music licensing requirements are complicated. Unfortunately, Italy lacks a single one-stop shop solution for acquiring music licenses, which means that you need to get your licenses from each organization separately. SIAE's tariffs are available on their website, but you can only activate a subscription by visiting one of SIAE's four regional offices (Nord Ovest, Nord Est, Centro, Sud). SCF's licensing rates are also available online, but you can contact them via email to sign up. Getting a license from Soundreef is the easiest: just enter some details about your business and you can purchase a license directly online.
Contact info
ITSRIGHT
Nuovo Imaie
SCF
SIAE
Soundreef