Music Licenses in Poland
Businesses need three different rights to legally play music in their physical venue.
This covers the right to use a specific recording of a song and compensates the recording artist.
This covers the right to use the original composition and compensates the songwriters and composers.
This allows you to play the song in a public environment.
In Poland, public performance licenses are obtained through companies such as Zaiks and STOART. It is vital that you obtain the correct rights to use music in your business.
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The Value of Soundtrack
We offer a licensed music service for commercial use, with great features such as scheduling tools and an explicit filter.
Soundtrack Your Brand is able to provide this via direct relationships with publishers, performing rights organizations and record labels (including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and more).
Our technology allows royalties to be fairly and accurately distributed back to music creators. Our Unlimited tier provides royalty payments that are approximately 5 times higher than those from streaming services for private use.
Unsupported Services
Services such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal and Deezer are not suitable for use in business. These platforms are for personal, private use only - it is not legal to use them when playing music to an audience and you could risk being faced with a fine.
Steps to become fully licensed in Poland
1) Trial Soundtrack
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2) Get a Public Performance License
If you don't have licenses from Zaiks and STOART, please visit their websites to get your licenses.
3) Subscribe to Soundtrack
Enjoy the world's best business music service while staying fully compliant. Select a plan and add your payment details to officially join Soundtrack.
More Information about Music Licensing in Poland
Overview
Music licensing in Poland has perhaps one of the more complex landscapes globally, as there are four different organizations that work to support music creators. While each organization does operate in the same field, each has a slightly unique focus. ZAiKS collects royalties for musical compositions, ZPAV collects royalties for recorded music and STOART collects royalties for audiovisual work. GESTOR is a little different as it does not collect funds, but does help to organize licensing agreements and copyright.
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History
Three of the four music licensing organizations in Poland are relatively new, having not existed until the 1990s. ZAiKS, Związek Autorów i Kompozytorów Scenicznych or the Association of Authors and Stage Composers is the exception, as it has been operating since 1918 when a selection of creators set out to protect the rights of creatives and their works.
ZPAV, Związek Producentów Audio-Video or the Association of Audio-Video Producers was founded in 1991 and is very similar in function to SIAE in Italy. In 1993, GESTOR, Giełda Praw Autorskich or the Copyright Exchange was launched to help facilitate music licensing.
The most recently formed organization is STOART, Stowarzyszenie Twórców Ochrony Praw Autorskich i Nowych Technologii or the Association for the Protection of Copyrights and New Technologies which was launched to protect audio visual works.
How to get a license in Poland
Businesses in Poland that make use of music, might need to arrange individual licenses with each of the four collecting organizations operating in this space. There is not currently a singular combined license available and so it is worth contacting each company separately.