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Commissioned music

Music especially composed for a film, TV show, radio show or commercials is known as commissioned music, and is generally treated by STIM in the same way as other compositions.
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How does a production company report their use of music to STIM?
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Disco, dancing, karaoke and bar-dj's

Music is an obvious feature at night clubs. Your guests come to the night club to have fun. You might offer karaoke, live performances or musical entertainment from a DJ. Whatever the case – music makes us feel good.
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Record releases outside the Nordic countries
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Join STIM

Are you a composer, lyricist, arranger or music publisher? Then STIM is for you.
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Live Music

Music creators are entitled to compensation when their music is played live. For us to be able to send money to the right authors, we need to know that the show took place, as well as what music was played.
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Get to know the STIM app

When you are affiliated with STIM, the mobile app is an essential tool for tracking your royalties. Now for the first time, the English version is available.
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Updates in Distribution Rules Video On Demand (VOD)

This topic concerns Mechanical rights for works in American film productions, for which we will introduce new distribution rules in 2022.
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Broadcasting In Neighboring Countries

Music that is primarily played in the other Nordic countries on radio and TV channels for which STIM receives music reports, e.g. Sveriges Radio, SVT, TV4, Canal + etc.
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Countries included in STIM's March payment 2022

The following countries are included in STIM's payment on 15th of March, 2022.
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Regarding the invasion of Ukraine

STIM and the international copyright societies strongly condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. We stand in solidarity with and express our full support for the Ukrainian people, creators, and the cultural sector.
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Payment calendar 2022
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Spotify interviews STIM's songwriter outreach specialists

The Spotify brand Noteable sat down with STIM's songwriter outreach specialists Ida and Anton to get their view of several important topics for active songwriters.
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Payment to a company or an organization

If you like you can have your STIM payments go to a company or an organization.
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Swedish songwriters to receive their first TikTok royalties!

For a long time, we at STIM have made a big effort to make sure that music creators get paid for the enormous amount of music thats is used on TikTok. Now for the first time, we pay out TikTok royalties to our rightsholders.
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Community Radio

Music that is played on community radio.
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Countries included in STIM's June payment 2022

The following countries are included in STIM's payment on 16th of June, 2022.
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Pay per stream values for online and broadcasting in June 2022
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Production music (library music)

Production music, also known as library music, is created by writers for the sole purpose of being used as background music in films, TV programmes and similar productions.