Music licensing in Mexico
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 Mexico, 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 public performance licenses from SACM and SOMEXFON, please visit their websites.
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Music licensing in Mexico
Playing music in your business in Mexico means covering two different things: the songs themselves and the recordings of them. Different organizations look after each.
SACM (Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México) represents Mexican songwriters, composers and publishers, and traces its roots to March 1945, when a group of composers led by Alfonso Esparza Oteo, Tata Nacho and Mario Talavera signed the document that created it. It was formally constituted the following January, on a date Mexican music has marked as Día del Compositor ever since 1965. SACM collects license fees whenever a member's work is played publicly, then distributes the resulting royalties.
SOMEXFON (Sociedad Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas, Videogramas y Multimedia) represents record labels and producers rather than songwriters. As a member of IFPI, the global body for the recording industry, it collects royalties whenever a recording is played in public and passes that income on to the labels and producers behind it.
Get in touch with each society directly to find out what your business needs.
Contact info
SACM
SOMEXFON