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Hotels & lodging music in Thailand
Hotels often need works + recordings licences across lobby, rooms, F&B, and spa — each Thai CMO with its own room/lobby bands. Not Indonesia’s Kepmen room lumpsum, not MACP star+per-room alone.
Three things to remember
- Number / status: Illustrative third-party quotes exist (lobby blanket vs per-room) but are not a national schedule. Confirm MCT, Phonorights, and any other relevant CMO tariffs for the property’s repertoire.
- Who to pay: MCT · Phonorights + other CMOs. Keep the invoice / licence in the premises’ name and address.
- Not this: A final invoice from Thon · legal advice · collecting for CMOs. Verify before you wire.
Know the number · 2026-08-10
No public tariff yet — Illustrative third-party quotes exist (lobby blanket vs per-room) but are not a national schedule. Confirm MCT, Phonorights, and any other relevant CMO tariffs for the property’s repertoire.
Who to pay
- MCT — Musical works — hotel / retail performance categories · site
- Phonorights + other CMOs — Recordings and non-MCT repertoire — map before signing one ‘hotel music’ middleman deal
Proof — what to keep
- Certificates per CMO covering lobby / rooms / outlets as scoped
- Star / room / outlet schedule
- Reject cash collectors without society paperwork
Legal basis
- Copyright Act B.E. 2537
- CMO hotel tariff filings
- DIP / Internal Trade oversight practice
Tourism density, legal fragmentation
Thailand has the demand of a hotel market and the licensing map of many societies. Atlas stays honest: outline numbers until each payee path is verified for that property.