Licensing
Fully licensed for business, in plain English.
What “licensed” means, why your personal streaming account doesn’t count, and what can still need its own license.
Licensing
What “licensed” means, why your personal streaming account doesn’t count, and what can still need its own license.
Playing music for customers is a public performance. The people who write and record that music get paid for it through business licensing.
Personal streaming accounts don’t include that. A Mixtape does. Every Mixtape is fully licensed for business, so the music in your space is covered.
Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music and the like are licensed for personal listening. Their terms of use don’t cover playing music for the public in a bar, restaurant, salon, store or gym.
That’s the reason business music services exist, Mixtape included.
Your mixtape is licensed to play as background music in your business: the music playing while people eat, drink, shop, wait or work out.
Some uses go beyond background music. These can need separate licensing, wherever your music comes from:
If any of these apply to you, bring it up at your sound check and we’ll tell you straight what your setup needs.
This page is general information about music licensing, not legal advice.
Tell us about your space, your hours and your crowd, and we’ll take it from there.
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