Music licensing in Belgium
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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Music licensing in Belgium
Playing music at your business isn't quite as straightforward as pressing play on your favorite playlist. Music licensing in Belgium means sorting out licenses from three organizations before you put the music on: PlayRight, Sabam, and SIMIM. Belgian businesses can get a single music license via Unisono, which is a joint effort between the three. Sabam (Société d'Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij) is the largest and oldest association for creative workers in Belgium. Founded in 1922, Sabam protects copyright for authors in a wide variety of artistic forms, including music, film, literature, visual art, architecture, and theater. PlayRight claims the neighboring rights of performing artists in Belgium. Established by a collective of Belgian musicians in 1974, PlayRight has been collecting and distributing royalties to its membership of performers since 1994. SIMIM (Société de l'Industrie Musicale - MuziekIndustrie Maatschappij) manages the neighboring rights of music producers in Belgium. The organization dates back to 1995 and their primary focus is distributing royalties to copyright holders. Applying for a music license in Belgium is a straightforward process. There is no need to get licenses from each individual rights organization (they all use Unisono) and there are no regional/linguistic differences (each organization operates across Belgium). All it takes is filling in a series of questions regarding your business and the areas in it where you plan on playing music. Businesses must apply for their music license at least five days prior to the first date of use.
Contact info
PlayRight
SABAM
SIMIM
Unisono