Category: Business Music Licensing
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Spotify for Business? Legal Use in Restaurants & Public Spaces
Short answer: personal Spotify is not legal for most businesses. Consumer streaming apps are licensed for private listening at home — not for restaurants, cafés, shops, salons, gyms, or lobbies. If you play Spotify (or similar personal accounts) over speakers for customers or staff in a public commercial space, you can face performance-rights claims, settlement…
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5 Hidden Costs of Licensed Music for Business (And How to Avoid Fines)
Playing music in a restaurant, salon, or shop is a public performance. Personal Spotify is not a business license. The expensive part is not always the annual PRO invoice. It is mixing sources you did not license, or treating karaoke night like a background stream. Five costs show up after the speaker is already on.…