Your payment covers the value of music
When you play music in public, you need permission from those who created the music. You can obtain this with a music license from Koda/Gramex. Find out what your payment support, and how a music license works.
Here's how you can easily play music - legally
At Koda, we make it easy and legal for you to play music that your employees and visitors will enjoy. With one music license, you get access to more than 38 million songs from around the world. Then you don't need to contact the rights holders for each song you play on the radio, stream, download, or show on your TV.
Find a music license for your business (in Danish)
How does a music license work?
1: Calculate the price
If you play background music on your radio, stream music, have a TV on, or organize live concerts, then you need a music license. You can calculate the price by entering where, when, and how you use music.
Calculate the price2: Create the music license
You can create your music license online in 2 minutes. The license will be processed by our customer service, who will handle the administrative tasks and ensure that everything runs automatically. Then you can sit back and enjoy the music.
Create music license3: Turn on the music
With your music license, you support new music because you help ensure fair payment when music is played in public. Koda is non-profit and forwards your payment to songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The payment is the entire premise for the music of tomorrow.
What does my payment support?
At Koda, we work to ensure that composers, songwriters, and music publishers are compensated when their music is played in public spaces - whether it's in a bar, at a festival, at the hairdresser's, or on TV. We have been doing this for 100 years.
The money Koda receives for music played in Denmark is forwarded to the individual creators – in Denmark and abroad. We have agreements with a wide range of organizations like Koda around the world, and we ensure that the revenues for Danish music played abroad find their way to the Danish creators.
Your payment is crucial for the creators of music
Many songwriters and composers are self-employed - perhaps just like you. When you pay to Koda and Gramex, you support the musicians and artists who have created, composed, and recorded the music. It is a payment for the work involved in creating the music that provides experiences and value to everyone who uses and listens to music – at workplaces, concerts, in a store, or in a podcast.
What is Koda/Gramex?
Koda and Gramex are nonprofit organizations that ensure that music creators are paid when their music is played in public.
Koda represents the composers and songwriters behind the creation of the music. Gramex represents the performing musicians and record labels that have recorded and released the music. Often, it is different people who have written the music and recorded it.
Koda collects payments on behalf of Gramex in most areas – often you can simply address Koda.
Questions about your music license
Get ready to play music
Enjoy the music
Report concerts, events, and live music
As an organizer, you are responsible for reporting concerts and events to Koda no later than 10 days after the event.
Enjoy the music
Streaming service for background music
You can play music from a commercial streaming service. See the list here.
Enjoy the music
Play music that guests can hum along to
Your guests are into the music. You should be too.