30 Apr 2025

Contrary to popular belief, royalty-free music does NOT mean copyright-free music. You should check with the music provider on terms and coverage.

Unlike royalty-free music, the scope of our COMPASS Public Performance Licence is more extensive with over 19 million musical works from worldwide. Nearly all pop songs on billboard charts and the most recently published musical works which your customers are used to listening to are part of COMPASS’s repertoire which you cannot obtain from these music providers. Should you decide to change the type of music you are playing to suit a festive occasion or change in branding, you will be able to find something suitable in COMPASS’s wide repertoire.

In addition, COMPASS is also proud to be a licensed Collective Management Organisation under the Class Licensing Scheme (CLS) by MinLaw and IPOS. We offer a blanket licence along with an indemnity against copyright infringement actions and proceedings attributable to the licensee’s use of COMPASS’s repertoire under the terms of the licence agreement. This ensures that our licensees can have a peace of mind regardless of which musical works they use. No music provider can offer such indemnity protection.