Music licensing in Malaysia
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 Malaysia, 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 RPM, MACP and PPM, please visit their websites.
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Music licensing in Malaysia
Music licensing in Malaysia can involve up to three collecting societies, depending on what you play: MACP, PPM and RPM. A single joint body issued one licence covering all three between 2017 and 2020. That arrangement ended, so businesses now license with each society separately, and each sets its own tariffs.
MACP (Music Authors' Copyright Protection) represents Malaysian songwriters, composers and publishers. It issues blanket licenses for the public performance and broadcast of its members' songs, collecting fees and distributing the resulting royalties. Once you've applied and paid, MACP issues a permit sticker to display on your premises.
PPM (Public Performance Malaysia) and RPM (Recording Performers Malaysia) cover the other side of the equation. PPM, set up in 2016, represents Malaysian and international record labels, and says its members account for more than 95% of commercially released recordings in the country. RPM represents the recording artists and musicians behind those recordings. Both collect royalties whenever a recording is played, broadcast or reproduced in public.
Since these three societies each protect different rights, Malaysian businesses may need licenses from all of them, depending on the music they play. Get in touch with each directly to confirm what your business needs.
Contact info
RPM
MACP
PPM