Music licensing in Costa Rica
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 Costa Rica, almost everything you need is included in your Soundtrack plan except for a public performance license.
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, particularly in public premises and for businesses, is strictly forbidden.
Deezer Terms and Conditions of UseApple
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 ACAM and AIE, please visit their websites.
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Music licensing in Costa Rica
Playing music in a Costa Rican business is simpler than it looks. Two sets of rights are involved, the songs and the recordings, but you only deal with one organization: ACAM.
ACAM (Asociación de Compositores y Autores Musicales de Costa Rica) is a non-profit that manages the rights of Costa Rican songwriters and composers. Thanks to agreements with counterpart societies abroad, it also administers a wide international repertoire, so its licenses cover a large share of the music played in Costa Rica.
ACAM also licenses and collects the related rights owed to performers and producers, under a mandate from the organizations that represent them. AIE Costa Rica (Asociación de Intérpretes y Ejecutantes Musicales de Costa Rica) is the performers' body, and its share reaches performers through that arrangement rather than through a separate license.
So a single license from ACAM covers the music your business plays. Tariffs are monthly and include VAT, with discounts for certified micro and small businesses. Get in touch with ACAM directly to find out what your business needs.
Contact info
ACAM
AIE