Music licensing in Australia
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 Australia
Unlike listening to music at home, playing music in a business setting requires proper music licensing. For businesses in Australia, that means getting licenses from two rights organizations: APRA AMCOS and PPCA. Music licenses are available via the OneMusic platform, which is a joint effort between the two. Established in 1997, APRA AMCOS is an alliance of two Australian rights organizations: the Australasian Performing Right Organization (APRA) and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). APRA's history dates back to 1926, when it was created to protect the interests of copyright holders and oversee music performance rights in Australia. AMCOS began in 1979, when it was tasked with protecting the mechanical rights of copyright holders. Together as APRA AMCOS, they work on behalf of and distribute license fees to composers, songwriters and publishers in Australia. The Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) is the second rights organization in the country. Created in 1969, PPCA protects the interests of the performing artists and record labels. PPCA distributes their license fees to copyright holders of a particular recording, as well as the artists that perform in them. With OneMusic, getting the right music licensing for your business in Australia is a simple process: just answer a few questions about your business on the OneMusic website and you can get your license directly. Costs vary depending on a few variables, including what kind of business it is and how much space it takes up. If your business has more than 20 locations in Australia, get in touch with OneMusic directly via email or phone to sort out your licensing requirements.
Contact info
APRA AMCOS
OneMusic
PPCA