Organize live events
When you organize concerts, festivals, music cafés or other events featuring live music you need a music license from Stim. This also applies to streamed live music.
The person responsible for the event must hold the license. Payment is normally made after the live music event has taken place, and only once you have reported the information Stim needs to calculate how much you must pay.
Checklists
Are you organizing a concert, festival, pub night or similar? Use our checklists to keep track of what needs to be done before, during and after the event:Reporting billing information as the live music organizer is an important piece of the puzzle for Stim to be able to distribute the funds to the correct songwriters. We match the reported details against the submitted setlist.
All live music events, e.g. concerts, festivals, music cafés, pub and dance nights, are reported on My Pages.
Reduced-price license for performances of a smaller amount of copyrighted music
For certain types of events, special licensing conditions may apply when only a small portion of the performed music is covered by copyright.
Where does the money go?
Stim is a copyright organization with more than 100,000 affiliated music creators and music publishers. Stim operates on a non-profit basis. The money you pay for a license is distributed to those who created the music. Through cooperation with organizations abroad, Stim also distributes compensation to millions of foreign music creators.
With the help of setlists and programs from musicians and organizers, Stim can pay the music license funds to the correct rightsholders.