Music licensing in Austria
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 Austria, 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 AKM and LSG, please visit their websites.
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Music licensing in Austria
If you play music in your business in Austria, you'll need licenses from two separate collecting societies: AKM and LSG. Each protects a different set of rights, and each bills separately.
AKM (Staatlich genehmigte Gesellschaft der Autoren, Komponisten und Musikverleger) is Austria's oldest music rights society, founded in 1897 on the model of France's SACEM, the world's first collecting society. It represents composers, lyricists and music publishers, collecting license fees whenever their work is played in public and passing the resulting royalties back to its more than 23,000 members.
The other society you'll need is LSG (Wahrnehmung von Leistungsschutzrechten), which looks after performers, record labels and music video producers. LSG has been active in Austria since 1968, collecting royalties whenever a recording or music video is played, broadcast or reproduced in public. Like AKM, it also sets aside part of what it collects for a social and cultural fund that supports its rights holders, as Austrian law requires of collecting societies.
Since AKM and LSG protect different rights, Austrian businesses need to apply for licenses from both separately — there's no single joint license covering everything. Reach out to each society directly to find out what your business needs.
Contact info
AKM
LSG