Music licensing in Finland
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 Finland
Unlike listening to music at home, playing music inside of a business requires licenses. For any business in Finland that wants to play music, that means getting music licenses from the Finnish performing rights organizations: Teosto and Gramex. Thankfully, both organizations offer music licensing for businesses in Finland via the same dedicated platform, Musiikkiluvat. The oldest performing rights organization in Finland is Säveltäjäin Tekijänoikeustoimisto Teosto (or just Teosto), which was founded in 1928. Teosto began as a group of composers and songwriters working to grow the Finnish music industry. Today, Teosto protects the performing rights of and distributes royalties to arrangers, composers, lyricists and publishers. Gramex protects the performing rights of performers and producers in Finland. Established in 1967, Gramex distributes royalties to its' members. Together with Teosto, Gramex co-founded Musiikkiluvat, which is a joint platform for music licensing in Finland. Getting a music license in Finland is easy. Businesses don't need to get licenses from each organization separately, as Teosto and Gramex sell their licenses online through Musiikkiluvat. All you need to do is answer a few basic questions about your business, including the type of business, how much space it occupies, how many months per year you plan to use music, and when you want to start playing music. Musiikkiluvat also guides you through any licensing add-ons your business requires, like playing music outdoors or in the private areas of your business.
Contact info
Gramex
Musiikkiluvat
Teosto