WHY DO YOU NEED A LICENSE?

License Application for the use of phonograms for profit is made by the Union of Producers of Phonograms from Romania(UPFR) and is a legal obligation that music users for profit have.

Also, for music reproduction in order to make work copies, the music reproduction License is complementary and one applies for it after she obtains the License to use music for profit.

Law no.8/1996 with its subsequent modifications and additions governs the copyright and the related rights of authors, performers and producers of music regarding the use of phonograms created and recorded. UPFR is the body designated by the ORDA decision to license the use of music and to collect the remuneration due from using it, in the collective name of music producers.

UPFR only licenses through ADJPR the individuals who perform their activity on Romania territory and use the music in public. The License to use music for profit issued by UPFR offers to DJs the right of nonexclusive use of music for different types of activities.

Obtaining the UPFR License involves paying a remuneration by users, at the values set by the current methodologies.