Music licensing in Czech Republic
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 Czech Republic, 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 a public performance license from OSA, please visit their website.
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Music licensing in Czech Republic
Playing music in a Czech business is simpler than it looks. Several collecting societies represent the rights involved, but since 2018 you only deal with one of them: OSA.
OSA is one of the oldest collecting societies in Europe, founded all the way back in 1919 by a group of composers and publishers. It represents composers, lyricists and publishers, and it's been an international player from early on: OSA was a founding member of both CISAC, the global authors' rights confederation, in 1926, and BIEM, the mechanical rights body, in 1929. One of its first directors was even a son of the composer Antonín Dvořák. Today its repertoire covers 3.5 million authors worldwide.
Since 2018 OSA has acted as the single contact point for the other Czech collecting societies too, including Intergram, which represents performers and the producers of sound and audiovisual recordings. So one license agreement with OSA covers the songs, the recordings and the performances, with OSA collecting according to each society's tariffs and passing the money on to them.
Rates depend on how you use music and the kind of premises you run. Get in touch with OSA directly to find out what your business needs.
Contact info
OSA