Music has become a vital component of many businesses today. Research indicates that music can help to set the style and tone of an establishment, as well as influence customer behaviour and improve turnover. Whether you are a major corporation; a hospitality business such as a hotel, café or restaurant; a retail outlet; a fitness centre; a health care business or professional service, it is likely that you use and benefit from music. This can be by playing the radio, TV or CDs at your premises, having music performed live or by playing music via an on-hold system on your telephone.

APRA/AMCOS has a wide range of licences that provide businesses and organisations with a simple and cost effective means of using music while complying with their copyright obligations. APRA offers – on behalf of its members – a range of licences for different types of businesses, including television and radio stations, major corporations, retail outlets, restaurants, clubs and fitness centres, health care businesses, professional services as well as licences for events.

Since 1997, APRA has also been able to offer a number of reproduction licences through AMCOS, a music copyright collection society that represents music publishers and writers from around the world for rights in the reproduction (copying) of their music. These include licences to record music onto CDs for sale to the public, to make radio and television programmes, to provide background music services to businesses, to make ringtones and digital downloads and licences to use production music.

Obtaining a licence
Why you need an APRA licence
Copyright and music
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