Music played in reception, music played in a treatment room and music played in exercise or strengthening classes is legally different to music played at home.
If you play music protected by copyright in a public place for a commercial purpose you need permission or you need to obtain a music licence. Legally this music use is different to playing music at home or in your car. This is called public performance of music.
OneMusic has two licence schemes that fit the allied health sector (physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, podiatrists, OTs, exercise physiologists or similar).
If you run functional fitness or strengthening classes and your use our music, the Fitness Centre and Fitness and Wellbeing Instructors scheme is for you and this scheme also covers background music.
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The Retail and Service Providers scheme covers background music. This scheme suits allied health businesses that only have background music and no fitness or strengthening classes for clients. This scheme also gives you cover if you have music on your telephone on hold or on your website or if you have music in the workplace, in areas of your business where the general public cannot attend.
