30 Apr 2025

Music users are responsible to first obtain permission before using Copyrighted musical works. However, we understand it is not practical for F&B and retail outlets to seek out and obtain a licence from thousands of rightsholders just to play background music at their premises. That is where COMPASS’s Public Performance Licence comes in to help you and music creators.

The COMPASS Public Performance Licence covers a repertoire of over 19 million musical works worldwide in partnership with our affiliated overseas societies from the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC).

COMPASS is also proud to be a licensed Collective Management Organisation under the Class Licensing Scheme (CLS) by MinLaw and IPOS. In line with the CLS, while we do not publish a full list of the musical works under our administration, we publish a list of our affiliated societies and COMPASS’s members on our website at https://www.compass.org.sg/about-us/ . In addition, 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.