As a TONO rights holder, you can report concerts abroad on TONO's web services, in the same way as concerts in Norway. Since Member Service often receives questions about billing for foreign concerts, it may be useful for many of you to become familiar with how this works.
/ 09/04/2014 / codexTONO has reciprocal agreements with management companies like us around the world. Through these agreements, all of these companies are obligated to collect and settle royalties on behalf of each other's rights holders, under the same conditions and terms that apply to their own rights holders.
Companies have different distribution rules and practices. Many companies settle for all concerts where fees have been collected and received. Other companies instead carry out a form of "sampling", which means that incoming fees are settled for a selection of reported concert performances.
The speed at which TONO receives payments from its sister societies varies. More and more companies are making quarterly payments, but there are still a number of companies that make payments 1-2 times per year. TONO's goal is to pay out payments from abroad as quickly as possible to our licensees. We make payments from abroad four times a year.
TONO sends so-called "notifications of performances" to our sister societies, so that fees for concerts are collected and our members can receive settlement. This is done on the basis of information received from our rights holders about concerts taking place abroad. If music by other authors was performed, these titles must also be listed. As a member, you register music reports at
Please note that when reporting concerts abroad on the web, the status of the individual concert report will not change when the individual concert is settled, as you are used to when it comes to concerts in Norway. We therefore ask you to check the settlement documents for settlement from abroad to see which concert performances have been settled.