About Us
Welcome to School Music License, LLC, a GIA Publications, Inc. company!
Our dream is to help you and your students do more with the music they love and help schools let their students shine online! By removing technological barriers to music copyright, School Music License has revolutionized the music industry, bringing confidence, peace of mind, and pride to arts and athletic programs.
Our guiding principles:
Empowering educators to let their students shine online.
Supporting school-community engagement and licensed performances.
Championing ethical music royalty practices.
Thousands of public and private schools already look to GIA for high-quality music education resources, and together we are proud to support today’s music licensing and copyright permissions needs for K-12 schools.
Our priority is to enable schools to showcase their programs by granting permission to record and stream a wide range of school events that include music. At the same time, we affordably ensure that authors, composers, and publishers receive the appropriate royalties for their work.
With School Music License, LLC, you are joining a community of dedicated music teachers, directors, school administrators, dance choreographers, coaches, athletic directors, and volunteers who care deeply about supporting their students and the artists whose music they enjoy.
Our Annual Basic License allows you to stream school concert performances, marching band performances, recitals, pep rallies, and other performances with cleared permissions on any of the leading streaming platforms (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and your school’s own website). You can even print song lyrics in a school program. And if you want to include recordings from the leading record labels in your streams of a dance recital, gymnastics meet, or football game, you can add the Master Recording License option to your Annual Basic License.
School Music License offers over ten million titles from the world’s largest publishing houses and record labels. Our online database is comprehensive and user-friendly. Search right on our home page to see if a song is included, or contact our team to receive guidance and best practices for your next steps.
Through our robust and easy-to-use platform, report usage of the songs you use for equitable distribution of royalties to composers and artists. Not sure where to start? Let our team help! We encourage you to get to know our website as well as our blog, schoolmusiclicense.com/news. There, you will find resources to help you learn more about copyright. When you are ready to move forward, click the “Purchase a License” link on the home page or contact our team to see what discounts may be available for your school district.
Our team looks forward to helping you support your school music, arts, and athletic programs in new and vibrant ways, providing the best customer service in the industry!
Are you a copyright holder or interested in becoming a Member Organization with us? You can reach our team at info@schoolmusiclicense.com.
School Music License — Let Your Students Shine Online.
Sincerely,
Brenna C. Horn-Cronin
Executive General Manager