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District Licensing Guide & Group License Options

by | Feb 1, 2024

District Licenses are a great way for a school district, regional area, or other centralized administrative body to obtain comprehensive copyright licensing for their entire group. With millions of titles from today’s top Member Publishers and Member Labels, School Music License is the premier licensing service for US-based K-12 schools. Our District Licenses make securing copyright permissions easy!

A District License allows each school within the district (also known as a suborganization) to maintain its own individual license types and enrollment numbers while centralizing the billing and account management.

Our top priorities are to support school arts and athletic programs while ensuring that artists, composers, and publishers receive the appropriate royalties for their work. Creating a District License provides the Group Manager with additional tools for organization and accountability. A few highlights of our District License include:

  • Streamlined and centralized billing with one invoice for all suborganizations.
  • Discounts from 5-20% depending on the number of individual schools in your district / group.
  • Ability to see in real-time all of the music reported by your suborganizations for added accountability and copyright compliance.
  • Individual music royalty reporting for each school, with the option to have multiple account users to serve both arts and athletic departments.
  • World-class customer service based regionally for comprehensive support, including personalized webinars.

We know that copyright and licensing can feel overwhelming, and so can creating an administrative structure to support your organization. That is why we have created the helpful “District Licensing Guide” below. The steps in this guide will help not only with building your District License, but also with the ongoing management of your account. 

Are you ready to join the School Music License District Licensing Program? Contact our team at info@schoolmusiclicense.com today. We are here to help. 

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  • Brenna C. Horn-Cronin serves as Executive General Manager of School Music License. Combining her passions for arts management, music, hospitality, and education, she leads School Music License by helping schools make the most of their arts and athletics programs. She is also the recipient of the 2026 Music Publishers Association Arnold Broido Award for Copyright Advocacy. Prior to this role, she served as General Manager of ONE LICENSE, ensuring that tens of thousands of churches around the world secured their music copyright licensing permissions. She has been with GIA Publications since 2016. She has a heart for social justice, grassroots community building, and servant leadership. In addition to her certification as a Teaching Artist, she’s also a decades long Yoga Instructor, specifically serving special populations. Brenna currently serves as the Sponsorship Chair for the Board of the Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association, previously served as the Theatre for Young Audiences representative on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Theatre Association, and supports the education justice efforts for young women in Rwanda through Africa New Life, an organization that works with families still recovering from the generational trauma of genocide. Brenna lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her wife and family and is a proud alumna of Northwestern University (MSLCE, Summa Cum Laude) and Western Michigan University (BA). 

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Brenna C. Horn-Cronin

Brenna C. Horn-Cronin

Brenna C. Horn-Cronin serves as Executive General Manager of School Music License. Combining her passions for arts management, music, hospitality, and education, she leads School Music License by helping schools make the most of their arts and athletics programs. She is also the recipient of the 2026 Music Publishers Association Arnold Broido Award for Copyright Advocacy. Prior to this role, she served as General Manager of ONE LICENSE, ensuring that tens of thousands of churches around the world secured their music copyright licensing permissions. She has been with GIA Publications since 2016. She has a heart for social justice, grassroots community building, and servant leadership. In addition to her certification as a Teaching Artist, she’s also a decades long Yoga Instructor, specifically serving special populations. Brenna currently serves as the Sponsorship Chair for the Board of the Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association, previously served as the Theatre for Young Audiences representative on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Theatre Association, and supports the education justice efforts for young women in Rwanda through Africa New Life, an organization that works with families still recovering from the generational trauma of genocide. Brenna lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her wife and family and is a proud alumna of Northwestern University (MSLCE, Summa Cum Laude) and Western Michigan University (BA).