Music licensing in Norway
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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If you don't have public performance licenses from Gramo and TONO, please visit their websites.
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Music licensing in Norway
Overview In Norway, businesses may require licenses from two individual Oslo based organizations, Tono and Gramo. The difference in focus is simple - Tono distributes royalties to the songwriters of a track and to the publishers who hold rights to the song, whereare Gramo distributes royalties to creators who have sung, played and released the music. History Tono, the Norwegian Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers or Norsk Toneuhonorering has existed since 1928. As a non-profit organization, it acts on behalf of over 40,000 songwriters, composers, lyricists and music publishers. Tono has agreements with 78 similar societies around the world, to ensure that Norwegian creators are fairly compensated. In 1989, Gramo was formed. Over 42,000 artists, musicians and record labels are members of the organization, which enables them to be paid when their music is played in a public space or on the radio. How to get a license in Norway Tono and Gramo both list different tariffs and rates online, as well as offering the option to enquire about applying for a license. However, it is not yet possible to purchase an instant license from either organization. Businesses will often need to establish separate music licenses with Tono and Gramo, as it is often the case that creators are paid by both organizations for the same track.
Contact info
Gramo
TONO