Broadcasting music in commercial areas

Music is beneficial for your activity: attractiveness, quality of the welcome of the customers. SACEM Luxembourg, has been mandated by authors, composers and music publishers to issue licences for the use of their music in public places. It receives royalties and distributes them to the creators of the works disseminated. These royalties amount to the salary that pays for the author's work.

SACEM gives you access to its repertoire of 118 million works: music, humour, sketches, poems, music for videos, texts of dubbing and subtitles, etc. SACEM grants you a licence to broadcast music while respecting authors' rights.

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How to broadcast music in a commercial area?

Broadcasting Music in a commecial Area: Application for Authorization

Fee & Application for Authorization for a commercial area

The fee for broadcasting music in a commercial area was set in agreement with the professional organizations representing the trade and craft in Luxembourg.

A reduction of 20% on the rates set out is given to the members of the signatory professional organisations.

The fee is based on the surface of the business establishment where music is broadcasted.

Please fill the online application for authorization for broadcasting in a commercial area

Different fees are used to define the royalties that need to be paid in order to get a licence:

You're operating a retail business: Barème C1 établissements commerciaux (commerce de détail)

You're operating a furniture store, a sanitary equipment store or a garden center : Barème C5

You're operating a store specialised in carpets, curtains, bedding, household goods, electrical appliances, DIY, wholesale and retail stores, a store selling car parts and accessories) or an exhibition hall (cars, equipment) : Barème C3

Broadcasting music in the street or in shopping malls (Surface: length of street/road, shopping mall x 5) is calculated as follows: Barème C3

Broadcasting music in libraries, museums or banks : Barème C3

If you wish to have more information, feel free to contact us. If you do not find the scale corresponding to your business you can contact us by mail or by phone.

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info@sacemlux.lu