Music on the internet for large companies

Large companies (with over 50 employees or more than CHF 9 million in turnover) which publish videos containing music on their websites or social media profiles must essentially distinguish between two groups of rights: those relating to the production of the video and those for its making-available. 

When music is used on videos in the internet (e.g. for image videos), the authors are entitled to the following remuneration:

• For the production of the video: 
  The rights for the use of music in online videos have to be verified for each video individually. You may already have acquired the necessary rights (e.g. in the case of commissioned music) or you may not have produced the video yourself but obtained it from your foreign business partner, for example. However, if the videos were produced in Switzerland without the production rights having been licensed, they must be registered with SUISA. For further information on this subject, see “company films”.

• For the making-available of the video:
  The fee in this case is based on the number of videos with music that you make available on your own website and social media profiles. The fee is a flat fee covering the whole calendar year. To enable us to calculate the flat-fee rate,  we need you to report the number of videos made available across all your websites, and the date they were counted (counting reference date). The annual flat fee rates lie between CHF 125 and CHF 5,625.

How to proceed:

Please send us the duly completed questionnaire. We will then issue the licence and invoice. Once your payment is received, we distribute the remuneration to the beneficiary composers, lyricists, and publishers.

Please take into consideration any other relevant rights

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So gehen Sie vor

Wir bitten Sie, das vollständig ausgefüllte Formular an uns zu senden. Zudem bitten wir Sie, die Informationen zu den vorgeführten Filmen mitzusenden. Anschliessend erhalten Sie von uns die Lizenz sowie die Rechnung. Nach Erhalt Ihrer Zahlung verteilen wir das Geld an die berechtigten Komponisten, Texter und Verlage.