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.

As the music licensing space changes frequently, please note that the information on this website is for general guidance only. Soundtrack aims to provide accurate and current information, but cannot guarantee its completeness or accuracy. It is solely your responsibility as the user to ensure you hold all necessary licenses for your business, in accordance with the laws of relevant territories.

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.

Included with your Soundtrack plan

Recording rights

Allows you to stream a specific sound recording of a song

Included with your Soundtrack plan

Publishing rights

Allows you to stream the original composition

Not included with your Soundtrack plan

Public performance rights

Allows you to stream the song in a public environment

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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.

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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 use

Tidal

The TIDAL Service is for personal, non-commercial use only.

TIDAL Terms and Conditions of Use

YouTube

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 Service

Deezer

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 Service

Apple

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 Conditions

Amazon Music

You may use the Services only for your personal, non-commercial purposes.

Amazon Music Terms of Use

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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

Filling the space with the right music is one of the best ways to shape the atmosphere in your business. But there's one problem: playing music in your business isn't as simple as pressing play. In Denmark, any business looking to play music must get a performing rights license from Denmark's collecting societies: Koda and Gramex. Komponistrettigheder i Danmark (Koda) is one of the oldest collecting societies in the world, dating back to 1923. Koda protects performance rights and distributes royalties to songwriters, composers and music publishers in Denmark. Koda also operates throughout the Danish Realm, providing the same rights protection to its' members in the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Gramex was established in 1963. Like Koda, Gramex protects performance rights in Denmark, but they distribute royalties to performing artists and record labels instead. Although Gramex is an independent organization, Koda generally collects royalties on their behalf. The process for music licensing in Denmark is, in most cases, quite simple. Music licenses are available directly through Koda's website. Just enter a few details about your business, including the type of business, how large it is, and when you want to start playing music on-site. After signing up online, Koda verifies your license and sends an invoice.

Contact info

Gramex

AddressGammel Kongevej 11-13, 2. sal 1610 København VEmail[email protected]Phone+45 33 85 32 00 Websitewww.gramex.dk

Koda

Email[email protected]Phone33 30 63 00Websitewww.koda.dk/

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