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 for private music listening only. If you want to use these services in a business environment, such as commercial or public areas, this can lead to a fine.

By using a consumer streaming service for business purposes, artists are also not paid the remuneration they are entitled to.

Yes indeed, 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 rights for recording and distribution of the music. The reproduction rights. 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

When you use music in your business, you pay Buma/Sena (or the rights organisation of the country where you are based) for making the music public. It does not matter what source of music you use. (Whether the music is used for commercial or non-commercial purposes is also irrelevant.

In short, you pay disclosure rights.

The amount that you have to pay to the rights organisation is determined by the number of square metres where the music is played and under which branch your company falls.

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

You apply for these fees yourself at the rights organisation of 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.

Unrelated music is mainly used to provide music to part of the company 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.