Music licensing in Spain
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 AIE and SGAE, please visit their websites.
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Music licensing in Spain
Overview In Spain, there are three primary organizations that operate within the music licensing space. SGAE looks after the rights of authors and publishers. AGEDI takes care of the rights of producers and record labels. AIE operates to manage the rights of performing artists. It is possible that a business operating within Spain, may need a license from each of these organizations if there is music played within the company space. History Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, or General Society of Authors and Publishers, is most commonly known as SGAE. It was the first of the three primary PROs in Spain, and was founded in 1899. AGEDI and AIE were both established much later, in 1989. AGEDI stands for Asociación de Gestión de Derechos Intelectuales or Association for the Management of Intellectual Property Rights, while AIE is the shortened name for Sociedad de Artistas Intérpretes o Ejecutantes de España, or the Spanish performing rights society. Each of the three organizations have traditionally focussed on their specific area of music licensing within Spain. How to get a license in Spain If you are running a music-playing business in Spain, you will most likely need to contact each of the three music licensing organizations individually to obtain the correct licenses for your company. You can reach each organization by phone.