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What is the role of Buma Stemra

In order to use someone’s work, permission from the artist is needed. When the permission is given, then the artist can ask a fee for the publication or the recording of his work.

It will become clear to you that it is almost unfeasible for an author to control where and when his work is used. For this reason musicians have set up organisations do this for them, the Buma Union and the Stemra Foundation, known simply as Buma/Stemra. For practical reasons, these organisations have formed one company, established in Amstelveen. At Buma/Stemra around 11,000 composers, songwriters and music publishers are subscribed. Buma and Stemra don’t limit themselves only to those who are directly subscribed with them. Via contracts with author’s rights organisations abroad, Buma and Stemra represent millions of pieces of music writtten by hundreds of thousands of composers and songwriters. The chance that a certain piece of music is not managed by Buma/Stemra world music repertoire is, therefore, very small.

Buma Union

Buma is engaged with the organising of permission and collecting of fees for the public performances of pieces of music. This means concerts, broadcasts on radio and television, background music in the hospitality industry, shops and companies but also the presentation of a film with music in the cinema, at a convention, or inside the company the film is produced by. Permission from Buma is not needed for the performance of a piece of music in the home.

Stemra Foundation

Stemra takes care of permission for the recording of music on CD, audio cassette, Cdi, CD-ROM, and soundtracks for films and commercials for composers, songwriters, and musicians who are members. Stemra gives record companies, broadcasting networks, advertising agencies, film producers, et al. permission to record and duplicate music for their productions on behalf of the author.

A producer of commercials, feature films, educational or company productions who wanted to use music in his production, for example, would in most cases get it from Stemra. As representative of the world music repertoire, Stemra can, in many cases, lend permission directly for the chosen piece of music to be recorded for the project in question. Concerning other forms of music permissions; for example, films for television and cinema and commericials, Stemra must apply to the holder of the rights to the music for permission. The request procedure and fees to be paid are dependant on the type of proposal. You can read more about this in the following sections.

Production rates under Stemra management:

Type CD/DCC/MiniDisc

Maximum Playtime (min.)

Maximum number of musical works

Selling price

(/)

Fee per item (/)

CD-single

8

2

Up to € 5,67

€ 0,29

CD-single

8

2

above € 5,67

€ 0,57

CD-maxi-single

20

4

Up to € 5,67

€ 0,85

CD-maxi-single

20

4

above € 5,67

€ 0,57

CD/DCC/MiniDisc

80

18

Up to € 5,67

€ 0,57

CD/DCC/MiniDisc

80

18

Up to € 6,81

€ 0,64

CD/DCC/MiniDisc

80

18

Up to € 7,94

€ 0,73

CD/DCC/MiniDisc

80

18

Up to € 9,08

€ 0,82

CD/DCC/MiniDisc

80

18

Up to € 11,34

€ 0,91

CD/DCC/MiniDisc

80

18

Up to € 13,61

€ 1,00

CD/DCC/MiniDisc

80

18

Up to € 15,88

€ 1,09

CD/DCC/MiniDisc

80

18

Up to € 18,15

€ 1,18

CD/DCC/MiniDisc

80

18

Up to € 20,42

€ 1,27

CD/DCC/MiniDisc

80

18

Up to € 22,69

€ 1,36

Below you’ll find the rates for vinyl and cassette recordings

Genre (vinyl)

Maximum Playtime (min.)

Maximum number of musical works

Selling price

(/)

Fee per item (/)

Single 45t 17 cm (7 inch)

8

2

---

€ 0,22

Maxi-single 45t 17 cm (7 inch)

12

3

---

€ 0,25

EP 45t 17 cm (7 inch)

16

4

---

€ 0,27

EP 33t 17 cm (7 inch)

30

6

---

€ 0,34

Disco-single 45t 30 cm (12 inch)

18

4

---

€ 0,41

Disco-single 33t 30 cm (12 inch)

60

16

---

€ 0,48

LP 33t 30 cm (12 inch)

60

16

Up to € 5,67

€ 0,48

LP 33t 30 cm (12 inch)

60

16

Up to € 6,81

€ 0,54

LP 33t 30 cm (12 inch)

60

16

Up to € 7,94

€ 0,64

LP 33t 30 cm (12 inch)

60

16

Up to € 9,08

€ 0,73

LP 33t 30 cm (12 inch)

60

16

Up to € 11,34

€ 0,82

LP 33t 30 cm (12 inch)

60

16

Up to € 13,61

€ 0,91

Genre (cassette)

Maximum playtime (min.)

Maximum number of musical works

Selling Price

(/)

Fee per item (/)

Single

8

2

---

€ 0,22

Maxi-single

12

3

---

€ 0,25

Maxi-single

16

4

Up to € 4,54

€ 0,27

Maxi-single

16

4

above € 4,54

see MC

EP-cassette

30

6

Up to € 4,54

€ 0,34

EP-cassette

30

6

above € 4,54

see MC

MC

60

16

Up to € 5,67

€ 0,48

MC

60

16

Up to € 6,81

€ 0,54

MC

60

16

Up to € 7,94

€ 0,64

MC

60

16

Up to € 9,08

€ 0,73

MC

60

16

Up to € 11,34

€ 0,82

MC

60

16

Up to € 13,61

€ 0,91

  

 

 
 

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