How do you acquire a licenceSAMRO issues licences to music-users, either on an annual basis for places where music is performed regularly, or, if required, for a season or even for a single entertainment like a concert or a dance on a "one-off" basis.
It has a variety of tariff-scales drawn up to suit the particular circumstances of each class of premises or type of musical performance concerned.

• Wherever possible, these tariffs have been fixed after due negotiation with representative bodies of music-users.
• The fees are moderate, and compare favourably with those payable for the performance in public of dramatic works.
• SAMRO grants a licence to music users who are prepared to enter into the standard licence contract and pay the applicable fee.
• To do this you must fill in the SAMRO Application for a Copyright Music Licence form, which then becomes your licence specification once your fee has been paid.
• You can fill in the form and post it to SAMRO's head office.
• Every licence issued by SAMRO requires the licensee to submit regular "returns" or lists of the musical works performed in his/her establishment.
• These returns are essential, for they enable SAMRO to accurately distribute the royalties which it has collected, to the composers and other rights holders whose works have actually been performed.
• However, to make things easy for the music-user, SAMRO does not ask such returns from establishments which perform only radio or television transmissions, since those details are available from other sources.
• A simplified form of programme-return has also been devised for establishments using disc players, juke boxes or tape machines.
• Every effort is made by SAMRO to ease the task of the music-user, and practical suggestions are always welcomed.
• Music users should be aware that the penalties provided by law for the infringement of copyright include an interdict, damages and costs.

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