WHAT IS CANOPY?
Amplify your brand, engage your customers, and transform your business. CANOPY is the next generation music platform designed for your sound, space, and style.
Amplify your brand, engage your customers, and transform your business. CANOPY is the next generation music platform designed for your sound, space, and style.
When you play music in your business, be it from your personal library, or from a radio station, you are subject to public performance copyrights. As such, you are expected to pay royalties to performing rights organisations such as ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI. CANOPY takes care of music licensing and rights management compliance for you, giving you the ultimate control in legal business streaming
All the solutions mentioned above are intended for personal use only, and playing music in a business setting using personal apps is illegal and songwriters don't get compensated properly. For a more detailed look into the matter, here's a link to the full copy of the legislation. Also here's a link to a very informative article by National Restaurant Association. A must read for all business owners.
Yes. Under the Copyright Act, purchasing music allows you only to listen to it privately. Once you play music from your iPod or other device in a business, it’s a public performance and must be licensed.
Easy, just register here. We will get your account set up, and you will receive your welcome package right away, including your licensing documents.
CANOPY works on all iOS and Android devices, and Sonos™. If you don't have a spare device lying around, ask about our dedicated hardware player. It comes free with annual subscriptions.
Mobile devices are fickle beasts. They run out of battery, they run out of storage space and they drop off wifi. Incoming calls, texts and alerts can disrupt the flow of music. Also, most importantly, sound quality may differ from device to device. The CANOPY dedicated player features state of the art sound hardware that boasts a 256KB DAC (digital to analog converter) providing vinyl quality sound that no digital player can match.
As a business owner, you are the arbiter of what your brand says to the world. And one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal to help convey that message is music. The team at CANOPY share more than 55 years of collective experience crafting music solutions specifically for the built environment. Let our subject matter experts craft a signature sound for your sound, space, and style.
Everyone here at CANOPY are music enthusiasts. We live music and churn out new playlists -revising and finessing existing ones- all day, every day.
Yes, send us your playlist in any format, Spotify playlist, iTunes playlist, Excel sheet, back of a napkin. We will make it available for your account.
The CANOPY hardware player features a built in 256KB DAC (digital to analog converter) providing vinyl quality sound output no digital player can match.
We believe that music is powerful and want to insure it’s continued creation. As long as your subscription is active, CANOPY handles music licensing and rights management compliance for you, giving you the ultimate control in legal business streaming. Our licenses covers music played through CANOPY only. Any other sources of music will not be covered.