Music broadcast licensing

In most countries broadcasting music online may require one or more licenses. We have compiled a list of entities and resources that will hopefully assist you in making sure your station is fully covered.

Licensing entities
	LoudCity provides small webcasters comprehensive royalty management with SoundExchange, BMI, ASCAP and SESAC while ensuring every station maintains complete control over its content. LoudCity makes sure your station is covered legally without interfering with your stream or station identity. We guarantee no in-stream advertising and no listener registration required through our site. Read more...	Location: USA
	SWCast Network can get you on-track to becoming a broadcaster easily, legally, and affordably. All you need is a working computer, plenty of music, an Internet connection -- and some creativity can go a long way as well! Clearing the rights for you to legally broadcast your music collection over the Internet is our specialty. In fact, the Joint Performance Licensing Program™ is already bundled as part of your membership in Personal Broadcast Services. We take care of all the boring and confusing business stuff, so you can sit back and have fun! Read more...	Location: USA
	LiveCast offers, for the first time internet radio licensing and hosting packages, available in the United Kingdom. For a small monthly fee, broadcasters will be able to posess the rights to broadcast licensed material, and have their streams hosted on the Ultra-Fast servers of LiveCast. In addition, Livecast offers it's members, additional products, such as free access to the LiveCast Newsroom coverage, programme syndications, and a wealth of material produced exclusively for LiveCast. Read more...	Location: UK
ASCAP - The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers	We realize that as technology changes and users’ expectations of on-line music grow, ASCAP must continue to be a leader in Internet licensing. Accordingly, we are pleased to announce two new versions of our widely used Internet license agreements: “Non-Interactive 5.0” for non-interactive sites and services; and “Interactive 2.0” for interactive sites and services. Read more...
BMI - Broadcast Music, Inc.	BMI became the first music industry organization to embrace the internet as a new venue for the uses of BMI affiliated music when we signed our first internet license in 1995. Since that time BMI created innovative new ways to manage copyrights for the digital world. BMI’s innovations include The Digital Licensing Center, the first end to end automated online licensing system, and our automated music use reporting and digital fee payment systems. Today BMI serves nearly 3,700 different websites and digital music offerings using BMI affiliated music. Read more...
SESAC - Society of European Stage Authors and Composers	Performing rights organizations, such as SESAC, are businesses designed to represent songwriters and publishers and their right to be compensated for having their music performed in public. By securing a license from SESAC, for example, music users (i.e., television and radio stations, auditoriums, restaurants, hotels, theme parks, malls, etc.) can legally play any song in the SESAC repertory. Without a license from a performing rights organization, music users are in danger of copyright infringement. Read more...
SoundExchange	SoundExchange®, Inc. is a dynamic, 501(c)(6) nonprofit performance rights organization embodying hundreds of recording companies and thousands of artists united in receiving fair compensation for the licensing of their music in the new and ever-expanding digital world. Modern technology makes all of our lives a little bit simpler and SoundExchange takes full advantage of its accuracy and efficiency to license, collect and distribute public performance revenues for sound recording copyright owners (SRCOs) and artists for noninteractive digital transmissions on cable, satellite and webcast services. Read more...