These two affiliated organizations share administration: Buma = performance and Stemra = mechanical. Widely used by Dutch songwriters, they also collect Belgium and Luxembourg plays through reciprocal agreements.
What Buma/Stemra collects
Performance royalties are collected by a performing rights organization whenever a composition plays publicly, including on radio, television, a stream, or at a live venue.
In Netherlands, Buma/Stemra collects public performance (Buma), mechanicals (Stemra). Buma/Stemra was established in 1913 and reports approximately 30,000 members.
Joining Buma/Stemra
Joining cost: Free to join (first year free); €63.55/year from the second year. Royalties are distributed quarterly. You need an IPI number — the global identifier connecting a writer with their works, without which registrations cannot be matched to payments.
Register directly at Buma/Stemra.
Where Davincii fits
Davincii doesn't file with Buma/Stemra directly. Your songs reach it through the reciprocal agreements of the societies we file with, and its payments come back to us the same way.
- Full name
- Vereniging Buma en Stichting Stemra
- Type
- PRO
- Country
- Netherlands
- Collects
- public performance (Buma), mechanicals (Stemra)
- Founded
- 1913
- Members
- 30,000
- Joining cost
- Free to join (first year free); €63.55/year from the second year
- Payout frequency
- Quarterly
- IPI required
- Yes
- Website
- bumastemra.nl/en/
Last reviewed 2026-08-31.
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