Music licensing in Portugal
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 Portugal, 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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Music licensing in Portugal
Playing music in a Portuguese business requires two licenses: one from SPA for the songs, and one from Audiogest for the recordings.
SPA (Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores) represents authors, and its repertoire reaches beyond music into other creative work. It collects license fees whenever a member's work is performed publicly and distributes the resulting royalties.
Audiogest handles the other side, licensing recorded music on behalf of both the producers who made the recordings and the artists performing on them, with what you pay divided between the two. Its license covers recorded music, music videos and karaoke — but not live music, which needs only an SPA license. Until recently this license was known as PassMúsica; it's the same license, now under the Audiogest name.
A few practical points. Apply at least 15 working days before you start playing music. The license is tied to the specific premises, the floor area or capacity, the period and the type of use, so it needs updating if any of those change. And Audiogest offers digital licensing, so you can check the cost and get the license immediately.
Reach out to each directly to confirm what your business needs.
Contact info
Audiogest
SPAutores