Click on the headlines below to read more about the relevant music areas, what time periods the payment relate to and what music areas and music providers that are included.
The following areas are included in the march distribution:
Live , background music , online , foreign .
A quick reminder: the payment for Unlogged Live Music, MEM Subsidies and Publisher Subsidies is made anually, in September.
Live
Subsidised Concerts (Contemporary Classical Music) - distr.cat 1
For music used during oct 2014 - dec 2017 *
Logged Live Music - distr.cat 5
For music used during jun 2012 - dec 2017 *
* = This period may be included in future distributions if we receive additional music reports.
Deadline for claiming missing royalties for Live is 2021-03-14.
Background Music
Theatre Music - distr.cat 7
For music used during oct 2014 - dec 2017 *
Logged Background Music - distr.cat 8
For music used during oct 2014 - dec 2017 *
Movie Theatres - distr.cat 15
For music used during april 2014 - dec 2016 *
* = This period may be included in future distributions if we receive additional music reports.
Deadline for claiming missing royalties for Background Music is 2021-03-14.
Online
Logged Online Music - distr.cat 16
The following digital music services are included for the specified time period.
Apple Music: apr-jun 2016
Google Play: jan-sep 2016
Heartbeats : jul-sep 2017
H&M.com: jul-sep 2017
iTunes Ringtones: jan-jun 2016
iTunes VOD: jul 2015 - dec 2016
Lexter : jul-sep 2017
Liveqube : jan 2016 - dec 2017
Megapol : jan-jun 2017
Music in Brands : jul-sep 2017
Music Partner : jul-sep 2017
My Instore Radio : jan-mar 2017
Netflix : mar-jun 2017
NRJ :jan-jun 2017
Radja : jul-sep 2017
Rhapsody/Napster: jan 2016 - juni 2017
Rockklassiker : jan-jun 2017
SF Anytime : jan 2010 - dec 2016
Spotify Business SE : jul-sep 2017
Spotify : jul-sep 2017 [payment delayed - more info ]
SR Webb : jan-dec 2017
Streamec : jan-jun 2017
Svensk Pop : jan-jun 2017
Swedebeat : apr-sep 2017
Tidal: apr-jun 2017
Vinyl : jan-jun 2017
Öppet Arkiv : jan-dec 2016
Deadline for claiming missing royalties for Online is 2021-03-14.
Foreign
News and additional notes
New agreement with the Church of Sweden
After long and constructive discussions, STIM and the Church of Sweden have concluded a new agreement for all music use. Thanks to closer and more accurate music reporting from the church’s parishes, and a simpler and more coherent collecting process, processing stages from payment to payout will be reduced and the quality of payments will be much improved. STIM has been negotiating a new agreement since 2015 and royalty distributions will be made retroactively for the combined period 2015-2017 as soon as the new agreement is concluded. Exactly when the payout will take place, we will confirm as soon as possible. We have continuously received and processed music reports of the music performed in churches, which will speed up the payment process for these past years.
Spotify and YouTube are unfortunately delayed
We have previously informed you that payments regarding streamed music do not always follow our regular quarterly payments and unfortunately Spotify and Youtube will not be included in this March Distribution 2018.
- Our aim is to distribute Spotify payments in April 2018.
- We shall soon confirm the date of STIM payments to you from Youtube.
The distribution process regarding multi territorial music services differs from other music usage areas and requires, in short, that many more stages are checked and in place before we can begin the distribution process.
SF Anytime
We are pleased to announce that royalties will now be distributed for the music in movies and TV series which are rented through SF Anytime's Video On Demand service. Following a lengthy dispute between STIM and SF Anytime AB, the parties finally agreed to a settlement in 2017. This distribution includes payments covering the years 2010 - 2016 and is based on actual reporting from the service.
The Baltic countries
To ensure the quality of reporting from our sister societies AKKA-LAA (Latvia) and EAU (Estonia), we have requested supplementary information. We have received some additional material which is now being analyzed but are still waiting for the final parts. For this reason, neither payments from the AKKA-LAA nor the EAU are included in the March Distribution. Our goal is to include royalties from both societies in our June Distribution 2018.
Tax Deductions in Germany
Payments from GEMA for Q1 2017 should have been included in our December Distribution 2017 but as we have informed you previously these have been delayed due to an ongoing dispute between STIM and the German Tax Office. This issue has affected several societies in addition to STIM. The latest development is that we have engaged German tax lawyers who are in dialogue with the German tax authorities.