Music licensing in New Zealand
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 New Zealand
Overview Businesses who play music, like cafés, bars and restaurants, shops, hairdressers, gyms, dance schools, offices, on hold music, and more, need permission (a license) from the music creators. The music licensing landscape in New Zealand is business friendly, as there is a blanket music license available from OneMusic. OneMusic license fees are distributed by APRA AMCOS and Recorded Music NZ. History In 2013, APRA AMCOS and Recorded Music NZ established OneMusic New Zealand to simplify music licensing for New Zealand businesses. APRA AMCOS stands for Australasian Performing Right Association Limited (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), they represent Songwriters, Composers and Music Publishers. Recorded Music NZ represents Recording Artists and Record Labels. How to get a license in New Zealand Using the OneMusic website, businesses can learn more about the license that they need, including related costs and the company information that will need to be shared. Application forms can be downloaded and completed, but will need to be emailed to process and activate the license.
Contact info
APRA AMCOS
Recorded Music NZ
OneMusic