GEMA: Calculate prices as a concert organizer

What you need:

• GEMA application form
• List of songs played
• Planning details of the event

Register the concert with GEMA

• If you are organizing a concert in which GEMA-free music is not played exclusively, you must register this with the collecting society in advance.
• When only bands appear that are neither registered as artists with GEMA nor If you cover songs by other artists registered there, you can attend the event without registering carry out. Then no other pieces of music may be played from the tape. In the event of a violation, there is a risk of high fines.
• In a GEMA fee table you can find the prices for events with live music. Here you can see how high the fees are depending on the entrance fee and the size of the event room.
• If you are planning a pure concert event, you can also consider the concert tariffs instead of the usual event prices. These are not calculated according to the size of the venue, but according to the number of visitors and your actual gross income.
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• It can be even cheaper if the music played can be counted as serious music. Then tariff E applies instead of tariff U-K. However, if you expect low sales, the light music tariff is lower. Since when distinguishing between serious and entertaining music, the entertainment value has priority when in doubt it is easier to declare a concert with predominantly serious music to be an entertainment event than vice versa.


Calculate GEMA fees - that's how it works

GEMA charges fees for music played at events and on the Internet ...

Affect prices

• If you have already chosen your venue, the size of the hall has already been determined. According to almost all tariffs, this is decisive for the amount of the fees.
• Carefully fill out the forms for the musical sequence. Especially if you choose the tariff for serious music, you have to prove that the appropriate pieces were played. In addition, with the music sequence you also directly support the artists whose songs you played at the concert.
• For pure concert events, you can reduce the number of seats, as the number of guests is also calculated here.
• If you earn so little money with your event that the GEMA fees are disproportionate, you can submit a hardship application. After an examination, part of the fees can be waived.