Music licensing in Canada
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
Public performance rights
Allows you to stream the song in a public environment
Cut costs
Your Soundtrack plan includes your Re:Sound and SOCAN licenses. If you already have these licenses, you can reduce your costs by cancelling them today.
To cancel your license for any other collecting society, please visit their website directly:
Note: some exceptions require additional licensing.
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
Get your correct business licenses
If your business charges admission, runs instructed fitness or hosts live music, you might need additional licensing. Visit local PRO websites and verify your use case.
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Music licensing in Canada
The music licensing landscape in Canada is somewhat complex, with three organizations (CONNECT, Re:Sound, and SOCAN) covering most types of rights. Thankfully, Canada's two largest performing rights organizations use a single online platform where businesses can get all of their music licenses. SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) is Canada's largest rights organization. Established in 1990 as a merger between CAPAC (a copyright collective dating back to 1925) and PROCAN (a copyright collective created in 1940), SOCAN focuses on collecting royalties for public performances in Canada on behalf of songwriters and composers. Re:Sound was formed in 1997. Their membership is primarily artists and record labels, and they focus on collecting neighboring rights in Canada on their behalf. Together with SOCAN, Re:Sound launched an online platform for selling licenses to Canadian businesses looking to play music on their premises. CONNECT is an organization that protects the master rights of sound recordings in Canada. Their members are primarily copyright holders of the recordings themselves (e.g., record labels). Canadian businesses looking to play music on-site need to sort out their licenses before turning the music on. Two of the major rights organizations joined forces to create Entandem, where any business in Canada can register online for music licenses that cover music protected by SOCAN and Re:Sound.
Contact info
Entandem
CMRRA
CONNECT
Re:Sound
SOCAN
SODRAC
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