Gramex at Your service

Gramex is the collective management organisation for recorded music in Finland.

Gramex wants to make using music easier and offers licensing services that enable the usage of phonogram music and music videos. Gramex collects remunerations to performers and producers in Finland and around the world.

If you are a performer or producers of music or if you need licenses for phonogram music, copyright society Gramex is at Your service. Gramex has more than 60 000 rightsholder client contracts with performers and producers. Gramex remunerations are collected from approximately 31 000 premises such as restaurants, stores and gyms and about 200 media licensing users.

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Service for artists and producers

Gramex promotes and administers the rights, prescribed in the Copyright Act, of performing artists whose performances have been recorded on phonograms and of producers of phonograms. Gramex collects remunerations for the use of phonograms and distributes remunerations to those entitled to them.

Gramex is a non-profit organisation, governed by the representatives of artists’ and producers’ organisations. Gramex delivers almost nine tenths of the collected payments to the clients and music promotion activities. The rest is used for collecting, administering and delivering the remunerations.

Becoming a rightsholder client

If one has produced a record or other kind of phonogram or has performed on one as artist, one can become a client of Gramex.
By signing a client agreement, a rightsholder authorizes Gramex administer, within the scope defined in greater detail in the agreement, his/her rights under the Copyright Act.

> Client agreement, Foreign music & clients / Artists (pdf)
> Client agreement, Foreign music & clients / Producers (pdf)

Payment of remunerations

Gramex distributes the remunerations to the rightsholders at a subsequent date, as soon as the necessary information for the distribution is available. The division between different rightsholders of the recording is done according to the Distribution rule of Gramex.

> Distribution rules of Gramex

In accordance with the Tax Withholdings Act, Gramex withholds taxes in connection with the payment of remunerations. Under this Act, withholding is not made from remunerations paid to a recipient listed in the Advance Income Tax Collection Register. The smallest remuneration to be paid is confirmed by the General Meeting.
By signing a client agreement, a performer or producer receives his/her own code number, i.e. a Gramex number. Correctness of the data given in the client agreement and their maintenance up to date are prerequisites to the distribution of remunerations.

Gramex collects and pays remunerations to rightsholders from Finland and abroad. See list of countries here.

Payment schedule 2023

The necessary phonogram report

It is the obligation of the producer to submit a phonogram report to Gramex regarding each published phonogram. The phonogram report is made via the MyGramex portal or with a form confirmed by Gramex. A copy of the record sleeve/label of the record or cassette is to be appended to the report.
Phonogram report is a very important document. Without a correctly filled detailed report submitted by the producer, Gramex will not be able to distribute the remunerations of that phonogram to the producer and the performers.

>Video: Filling a phonogram report on the MyGramex portal 
>Phonogram report

Annual reviews and transparency reports

The latest annual reviews and transparency reports contain a lot of interesting information about Gramex activities, management and finances.

> See the reports here.

Unidentified phonogram tracks

Gramex has made an unidentified tracks feature. The files and lists contain tracks with airplay and some other reported uses but without rightsholders in our system. The lists contain tracks from reported phonogram uses during calendar year 2020. The lists may contain some errors due to wrongful identification information received.

Contact: ilona.saarela[at]gramex.fi

Unindentified/Unclaimed tracks from calendar year 2020 (10.1.2023):
– Radio Airplays 2020
– Others 2020

Vision and Strategy 2023–2026

Gramex’s board confirmed the strategy for the next three-year period. At the center of the new strategy is a close, visionary, and responsible partnership with performers and producers and users of recorded music – both in Finland and internationally. Check out the visualized strategy summary here.

Contact

Gramex – The Collective Management Organisation for Recorded Music in Finland
Port of Music
Keilasatama 2 A
02150 Espoo

> See all phone numbers and contacts here.