BUSL-1.1 · Version 18.0.1.3.0

Music Licensing

What you owe SOCAN and Re:Sound for the music playing in your space, and what you might still owe.

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Licence periods: what is settled, and what still runs under an uncertified tariff
Licence periods: what is settled, and what still runs under an uncertified tariff

Playing music on your premises creates royalties, and the amount is not final. Background-music tariffs are before the Copyright Board, which can certify them years later, retroactively.

An establishment is where the music plays: its floor area, its uses and its operating days form the base. A licence period is a paid slice, with its renewal date, its settlement date and its payment reference. A royalty line applies a tariff to a period and carries, beside it, what was actually paid.

⚠️ The reference table is dated: every period carries both the proposed rate and the certified rate. That is what no spreadsheet does, because a spreadsheet cannot say “not certified yet”, and an empty cell reads as a zero.

One button quantifies exposure since 2020: what you paid under a tariff that nothing makes final, and what you could still owe.

No music passes through: the module tracks your compliance, it broadcasts nothing.

Comparable to The tracking no spreadsheet does, because a spreadsheet cannot say "not certified yet"

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