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
Playing music is a great way to fine-tune the atmosphere at your business, but it requires a little more effort than just plugging in your speakers. Although copyright protection is handled by two separate organizations (APRA AMCOS and Recorded Music NZ), music licensing in New Zealand is business-friendly: Kiwi businesses that need music licenses can get them all online via OneMusic. APRA AMCOS is an alliance of two rights organizations that operate in New Zealand and Australia: the Australasian Performing Right Organization (APRA) and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). APRA was established in 1926, when it sought to protect music performance rights of copyright holders in New Zealand. AMCOS arrived on the scene in 1979 with the intention of protecting mechanical rights in New Zealand. Collectively, APRA AMCOS works on behalf of composers, publishers and songwriters to protect their rights in New Zealand. The second major organization in New Zealand's music licensing space is Recorded Music NZ. Established in 2013 as a merger between a collecting society and an industry advocacy group, Recorded Music NZ protects the rights of record labels and self-released artists. They also distribute royalties generated through OneMusic. The process for getting music licenses in New Zealand is simple, as both organizations sell them via OneMusic. All you have to do is fill in some details about your business (including the first day you plan on playing music), select the appropriate plan and pay directly online.
Contact info
APRA AMCOS
Recorded Music NZ
OneMusic