Customers

Podcast

10/02/2023

TONO's price for the use of music in online services, including podcasts, is 12% of revenue, adjusted for music share. The TONO license gives the podcaster the right to use music TONO manages for a fee based on the number of downloaded or streamed music minutes. For podcasts with a minimum duration of 30 minutes with a maximum music content of 60%, […]

Smaller video productions

18/02/2021

TONO provides synchronization licenses for smaller video productions such as training videos, art projects, a vlog, video clips with music, etc. The amount of the fee depends on the number of minutes of music, as shown below. Up to 5 minutes Up to 20 minutes Up to 60 minutes kr 2 002 - kr 8 009 - kr 24 028 -  

Productions for teaching

TONO provides synchronization licenses for educational productions to be displayed online. The amount of the fee depends on the number of minutes of music, as shown below. Up to 5 minutes Up to 20 minutes Up to 60 minutes School productions for education   kr 1 200 - kr 4 802 - kr 14,406,- Student productions for teaching kr 700,- kr 2 800 - kr 8 [...]

Recording of church services

A synchronization license gives you the right to synchronize, that is, combine, music with both still and moving images in audiovisual productions. This can, for example, involve recordings of church services and ceremonies that remain available online after the service or ceremony has been live-streamed. TONO offers synchronization licenses for both individual church services and […]

Concert recording

A recording of a concert can be available for up to 7 days after broadcast for NOK 500. Should the concert recording be available for longer than 7 days? Please contact TONO's Online Media department at online@tono.no for an individual calculation of the fee.

Local Radio 2022

07/03/2018

The local radio station pays for the right to broadcast TONO's repertoire for a fee based on the total annual revenue from the radio operation, regardless of whether the channel is broadcast on FM and/or DAB. The fee percentage is determined on the basis of the percentage of TONO's managed repertoire that constitutes the local radio station's total broadcast time and is calculated as the music percentage x 0,0775. However, […]

Questions and answers

14/12/2016

We only use "boxed/production music", why should we deal with TONO? Purchases of boxed music do not include performance rights. TONO must quality assure all music use in Norwegian productions in order to be able to accurately bill composers and lyricists, and therefore we need a 100 percent overview of all music use. Should we report music to TONO even if we only have […]

Reporting from film producers

To make the path from music use to the rights holders' remuneration as short and simple as possible, TONO and NCB have a form that makes music reporting efficient and clear. Absolutely all music should be reported together in the form below, whether it concerns commissioned music, existing music or box/production music. Remember to indicate what is commissioned music. Here's how: 1. Download […]

Appointment cinema

Cinemas pay 1,00% of ticket revenues (excl. VAT) to TONO. The fee for cinemas is determined with an advance payment either annually, semi-annually or quarterly depending on last year's revenues. When the actual figures (ticket revenues) have been received, the fee for last year is finally calculated, while the current year's advance payment is adjusted. For film screenings without admission/ticket revenues, the TONO fee is NOK 1 per visitor. (Minimum rate for […]

Revy (tariffs 2022)

07/01/2016