Production music

You can opt to manage the mechanical rights to your production music independently, including the rights to reproduction and synchronization. This enables you to negotiate agreements with various production companies that utilize pre-produced background music in films, TV, radio, and commercials.

With these agreements, production companies can compile audio and visuals and potentially make copies of the production later, if it involves a physical product like DVDs.

However, copying rights for online use such as streaming services remain managed by Koda and are licensed through Koda's online agreements. This ensures Danish composers can compete on equal terms with foreign composers who are not Koda members.

Registering production music at My Koda

You can register your library works at My Koda by selecting the “Library” field. To register an existing work as library, email a list of the works to [email protected]

Please note

• The right to self-management includes only the rights associated with synchronisation (for online and physical copies) and copying (for physical copies only). The right to self-management does not include public performance, nor copies for online use, such as server copies.
  
• NCB still manages the mechanical rights associated with LIB works when these are used in isolation, unaccompanied by visuals (for example if they are released as a soundtrack or a downloads on iTunes).
  
• Library music must be clearly marked ‘Library music’ when submitting the notification. Otherwise, the rights will be managed by NCB in the usual way.
  
• All rightsholders associated with the work must agree to conduct self-management of the mechanical rights before the work can be listed as library music with Koda / NCB.
  
• The person or persons who have registered the work as library music are responsible for ensuring that the rights to record/ perform said work have been cleared.
  
• The member remains bound by his/her/their membership statement. This means that the member cannot manage the rights to recording and reproduction of any and all works that are not covered by the library scheme.
  
• The member is, irrespective of the library scheme, still a member of Koda / NCB as regards all of said members’ rights pertaining to public performance, recording and reproduction.
  
• If at any time the member wishes NCB to once again manage the synchronization rights and copying rights for works registered as library works, the library registration may be terminated by submitting a written request to this effect with one month’s notice to the end of the month.