Music online

“Music online” includes music played on a mobile phone, such as streamed music from Spotify, for example, or ringtones.

Special permission for Spotify?

If you are a member of STIM you do not need to give Spotify permission to play the music you represent. Spotify makes payments to STIM and has permission to play music from STIM's entire catalogue.

YouTube and MySpace

STIM and its members do not currently receive any payment for music played on YouTube or MySpace.

Ringtones

Companies that sell ringtones, and have a licence from STIM, send reports stating the number of downloads per title. The companies then receive an invoice from STIM and the payments are made to the composers and their publishers.

Your own music on your own website

If you wish to post your own music on your private website, you can do this without paying a licence fee to STIM/NCB. This applies both for streamed and downloadable music. The following terms must however be fulfilled:

• The website must be your own private website, which means, for example, that your have full editorial rights over it.
  
  
• All rights to the music must be owned by you, or by you and your co-composers jointly. If the music is published, the publishing company must be owned/controlled by you/your co-composers.
  
  
• There may not be any ties to associations, record companies or commercial companies on the website.

If these conditions are met, you do not need to apply for a STIM/NCB Internet licence. Should circumstances change, so that one or more of the conditions are no longer satisfied, you must, however, apply for an internet licence.