MUSIC RIGHTS

Do you want to use music in commercial and public areas? Then you have to pay a fee for this. Business music streaming services, such as BCM Stream, make an agreement with the music industry so you can legally play music in your business.

Streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, Google Play Music, and YouTube Music are intended solely for private listening. If you use these services in a business setting, such as commercial or public spaces, you may be subject to a fine.

When a consumer streaming service is used for business purposes, artists are also not paid the compensation to which they are entitled.

Absolutely, BCM Stream is the business alternative to Spotify. When using the BCM streaming service, artists receive the compensation they deserve. BCM Stream is a 100% legal music streaming service for the business market.

Music rights can be divided into:

• disclosure rights
• reproduction rights

BCM pays the reproduction rights: the rights to record and distribute music. With a business streaming service (such as BCM Stream), these costs are included in your subscription.

Reproduction rights are the music rights that allow our customers to play music in commercial and public areas. We do this by concluding agreements with music organisations.

We pay them so that our customers can play music professionally and 100% legally in their businesses. In addition, the music creators receive the compensation they are entitled to.

Music rights can be divided into:

• disclosure rights
• reproduction rights

As soon as you use music in your business, you must pay Buma/Sena (or the rights organization in the country where you are based) for publicly performing the music. It does not matter which music source you use (radio, CDs, a computer, or something else). Nor does it matter whether the music is used for commercial or noncommercial purposes.

In short, you pay disclosure fees.

The amount you must pay to the copyright organization is determined by the number of square meters where the music is played and the industry your business falls under.

In the Netherlands these costs must be paid to Buma/Sena and in Belgium you pay them via Unisono Sabam.

You must apply for these royalties yourself through the rights organization in the country where you are based.

The cost of the music rights depends on the number of square metres where you want to play the music. To play the right music in the right rooms and possibly lower the costs, BCM Stream also offers royalty-free music.

Royalty-free music is mainly used to provide music for part of a business without having to pay royalties. The music and artists offered are often unknown.

This type of music is mainly used in relaxation rooms, lifts, etc. For the rooms where music helps to determine the atmosphere, BCM Stream offers the well-known commercial music. You pay music rights for this per square metre.