FAQ Music Creators

You are a music creator if you have been involved in a record or CD recording or commercial download as a musician (e.g. soloist, band member, session musician, choir or orchestra member, or conductor) or producer. Under the Neighbouring Rights Act, you are entitled to remuneration if your recording has been performed in public or broadcast on radio and/or television.

Musicians, producers, intermediaries, and heirs can register with Sena free of charge if your music has been played in public and you are entitled to remuneration.

The only costs charged by Sena are administrative costs when we pay you remuneration for your registered and played tracks.

You can register with Sena via the link below:

Register with Sena

If you release your own music, you are not only a musician but also a producer. Therefore, you should also register with Sena as a producer. This means you need to register with Sena twice: once as a musician and once as a producer. You will then receive remuneration as both a musician and a producer when your music is played on radio or television.

If you are a producer (owner of the master tape, financially and ultimately responsible), you can request a master owner code for the ISRC from Sena free of charge.

The International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) is a digital fingerprint for producers' repertoire. It is a unique identification number for each individual recording. The ISRC has been developed to give you control over the use of your work.

Fill in all the details on this page. The producer will receive a one-time master owner code, which can be used to create an infinite number of ISRCs for tracks for which you are the master owner, both for audio and audiovisual. The assigned master owner code does not need to be reapplied for per label, main artist, or album.

For more information about the ISRC and how to apply for one, please visit the ISRC page.

As a producer, you can apply for a master owner code for the ISRC free of charge from Sena via the website. You will receive this master owner code by email, along with an explanation of what an ISRC looks like and how you can apply the code. It will be assigned to you as the producer. With this master owner code, which you apply for once, you can create an infinite number of ISRCs for the tracks to which you hold the master rights.

In practice, distributors sometimes issue ISRC codes. As a producer, you can enter this ISRC code in the (mandatory) field when registering your repertoire in MySena. However, we always advise producers to apply for their own master owner code.

To log in, go to MySena and enter your Sena number and password. If you have a login problem and, for example, you have lost your Sena number or forgotten your password, follow the steps below the login fields.

Sena app

In the Sena app, you can log in in four different ways: with your Sena number and password, with a 5-digit code that you set yourself, or with facial recognition (Face ID) or your fingerprint (Touch ID). You can set this up under ‘Settings’ in the hamburger menu.

Once your track has been registered in MySena, we match the track details with the details of the radio/TV stations on the playlists we have received from our fingerprint supplier Soundaware. Does your repertoire appear on these playlists? If so, we will process the playback data and your repertoire claim.

An amount is reserved for tracks that appear on the playlists. We call this a reserved amount because it can change until the moment of payment. Sena pays out the royalties four times a year, at the end of March, June, September, and December. We add up all the royalties for the quarter and pay them out if your net royalty is at least €5.00. Gross reserved amounts are listed in MySena behind the track in the repertoire overview. In MySena and in the Sena app, you can view your current balance—the gross amount reserved for you for the next payment—at any time.

Tracks that have not been played and therefore do not appear on the playlists remain in your repertoire overview in MySena. Their status remains ‘track added’.

When registering your repertoire, you cannot mention other (session) musicians who also contributed to the recording. Each musician must add the tracks under their own musician account in MySena. However, it is possible to share the tracks you have registered with fellow musicians who collaborated on the recording. You can do this by clicking on the track in your repertoire overview and then clicking on “share.”

Musicians and producers receive money from Sena when their music is played in public. We carefully determine who is entitled to what. We compare the playlists of radio and TV stations with the repertoire data in our database. We then calculate the correct remuneration and pay it out. If a particular musician or producer is not yet registered with us, we reserve their remuneration for a maximum of three years. During that time, we actively search for the person or organization.

A double claim occurs when at least two producers claim the same artist/track/version for the same period and the combined royalty percentage exceeds 100%. When a double claim is created, all funds are blocked for payment until it is clear who the rightful master owner is.

Producers can handle double claims in MySena under Tasks/Double claims. You will automatically be taken to the overview of double claims with the status “pending.” Click on a track to view the details of the double claim. Under “Progress per claimant,” you can confirm (check mark), withdraw (cross), or edit (pencil) your claim. The double claim also contains the contact details of the other claiming producer(s) with whom you can contact to reach a solution. If you are allowed to claim the rights for a limited period, it is important to fill in the start and end dates with your claim. The rights percentage can also be changed via ‘edit’ if the rights are divided among several producers. You can find a complete help text by clicking on the question mark in the blue bar.

In the case of regular double claims (status: pending or done), all claiming producers must reach a solution among themselves. Sena is not a party to this.

If a double claim remains open for more than 3 months and has a value of more than €1,000, the double claim will be escalated. You have 3 months to upload evidence to MySena proving that you hold the producer rights. Based on the evidence provided, Sena's legal department will assess whether the claim is justified. This also depends on whether the other claiming producer(s) also provide evidence. Sena will make a decision on the outstanding double claim within two months. If the legal department is unable to reach a decision because the evidence is missing or incomplete, the double claim will be removed from the escalation process and the track will be returned to a new regular double claim.

Please note that any reserved payments will remain blocked for payment until the double claim has been settled and resolved by all claimants. It is possible that the producer to whom the claim is due has already received a payment for the track. In that case, a lower payment or no payment may be made than is shown for the track, because this amount has already been received.

Sena claims the repertoire registered by producers abroad on the basis of the rights per title per country confirmed by the producer. This prevents duplicate claims at our sister organizations abroad and ensures that the reserved fees for this are not unnecessarily blocked for payment.

When you register a track in MySena, you first enter the track details and then confirm the foreign rights in the next step. You may have given Sena a worldwide mandate, but only have the rights for the Benelux for a particular title. Or you may be able to claim a track in a particular country with a specific start and end date or a shared rights percentage. You can confirm this when registering the track in MySena.

If you have a regional mandate with Sena, you can add countries in the rights per title per country, but Sena will then automatically collect only for you in the Netherlands. If you are not allowed to claim rights abroad for a particular track, you can also indicate this.

For tracks that you have registered in the past where the rights per title per country were not yet part of the repertoire registration, you can still confirm the foreign rights.