Music Rights in Businesses
How to play music legally in your business and avoid heavy fines
Music rights in business in US and Canada
If your business is located in the US or Canada, and you use Soundsuit, all the copyright fees and public performance rights are included in your Soundsuit subscription. You do not need to pay BMI-ASCAP fees nor GMR, SESAC, SOCAN and Re:Sound fees on top.


Music rights in businesses in the rest of the world
In the EU and the rest of the world, you do need to pay a license fee to your local PRO (Performing Rights Organization, e.g. GEMA, SACEM, KONA, STIM, etc.) to play legally background music in your business, and this even if you use a legal B2B music service like Soundsuit.
Are consumer services like Spotify legal for businesses?
You can’t use mainstream streaming platforms like Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, or Amazon Music because they are only licensed for private use.
In order to play legal background music in a commercial venue, you have to use a solution licensed for business purposes.

Why a professional music solution?
Using a professional music service helps you simplify your business life on three levels:
- Music rights
- Music branding: find the right music for your venue / brand / audience, sort these music files into coherent mood playlists, schedule these playlist along your business rhythm, and of course regularly update these playlists to avoid annoying your staff and clientèle.
- Music controlling: decide which music schedule plays in which venue and which space/zone of each venue, and decide which app controls your staff should have on the music (e.g. switch between schedules, change between moods, play-pause-skip-like-ban a song).

Why top tier brands opt for Soundsuit?
Soundsuit is one of the top rated professional music service on the market: create, schedule and control premium music across all your venues, the easy way.
As a user of Soundsuit you benefit from the same premium music catalogue that top tier brands like Mercedes-Benz, LVMH, Accor Hotels, BoConcept, and Asics play in their venues every day. Differentiate from the competition through a custom made music experience that engage your customers and motivate your employees.

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