Exploiting an online streaming platform with content that incorporate music
Type of use
Exploiting an online streaming platform, commercial and non-commercial radio and TV channels over the Internet. For example, exploiting an Internet site that provides podcasts, audiobooks, music included in podcasts, in audiobooks, a web radio, a streaming service such as Apple Music or Spotify, a web TV channel, or the web site of a record label that allows to directly listen to the music of its roster of artists without the use of an existing third party such as Spotify.
Warning: it is important to distinguish broadcasting and production. If you also create the content you broadcast, please refer to the Production section.
What To Do
Clarifications and cautionary statement
Collective management societies apply tariffs for the collection of a percentage of the revenues of any broadcaster available on the Canadian territory for the partial or total use of a piece of music.
For smaller broadcasting platforms that generate little or no revenue, an affordable minimum rate is applied.
Related uses
- - Integrating or sharing music hosted by an online music platform
- - Broadcasting music on the radio or on television
- - Performing music during a concert or event
- - Music broadcast by companies, businesses and other establishments
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