The Commercial Grant welcomes applications from all organizations and individuals who seek to launch commercial initiatives that benefit music publishers and songwriters/composers/lyricists in general.

Market-oriented initiatives and projects, e.g., major music export projects, festival arrangements, podcast on music publishers and songwriters, music business education, music business workshops and similar projects.

Detailed project description and budget

The Commercial Grant is awarded on an ongoing basis, but before you can apply, the project must be pre-approved by Musikforlæggerne’s secretariat. Please send a detailed project description to hanne@musikforlaeggerne.dk

Applications for The Commercial Grant are evaluated by the Musikforlæggerne board of directors at an upcoming board meeting.

You can expect an answer to your application within two months of submission.

You cannot receive funding for the same project from multiple grant schemes under Koda Culture. This is in accordance with our regulations, section 6.D. You can find the regulation here.

This means that, for example, if you apply for funding for a release, you can only receive support once for your release project. In other words, you cannot receive funding for a release from both the Release Fund and the Publisher Fund. However, you may receive support for other phases of the same project from other funds. For instance, if you have received funding for the release, you may apply for support for the next phase of your project, such as marketing the release, from the PR funds.

An exception to these rules is the Potential Funds, which are not part of the Cultural Funds.

We have funds that support the various phases your project may go through. These phases can – from an overall perspective – be divided into:

• Create (idea, clarification, writing)
• Improve/Develop (coaching, camps, education)
• Release (recording, mixing, mastering)
• Disseminate (PR/marketing, concert production, trade fairs and exhibitions)

If you have any questions about The Commercial Pool, you can contact Hanne Christensen by email hanne@musikforlaeggerne.dk

If you have any technical questions, you can contact Koda, kodakultur@koda.dk