Music does not just happen. Hard work has been put into the lyrics and the composition. It makes sense therefore for music authors to be remunerated as they deserve. Do you have to pay for music on websites? Can you play CDs for free at a company party? The Dutch Copyright Act gives the answers.

Buma/Stemra collects reimbursements from music users and distributes them among the music authors who are members. To keep this all as simple as possible, we sign contracts with umbrella organisations for music users and sometimes with the individual users. The money that we receive from them is distributed among the music authors whose creations have been used, as a function of the type of usage.