Licensing

For Beckenhorst Press and The Music of Dan Forrest

Licensing is the way composers and publishers are paid for various uses of their copyrighted work, beyond the sale of sheet music. We're grateful for your cooperation, and want to make licensing as simple and clear as possible. Follow the outline below to find the license request form you need, then complete it and send to the email address provided on the form. We will reply promptly.

Would you like to...

Print or re-print...

Our lyrics (not music) in your...

church’s worship bulletin or slides: use a blanket license from CCLI or One License (*see details on these companies at the bottom of this page).
concert program (not for a worship service): clearly print composer, lyricist, and publisher names; no license required.
book, magazine, or other publication: Lyric Reprint License

Our music with lyrics translated into another language, for your own choir's use only: Please check the copyright information on the bottom of the first page of music (using the PDF preview on our website):

If only Beckenhorst or The Music of Dan Forrest is listed: simply purchase the full number of digital copies (PDFs) that you will use, from our website, and write your translation into your master copy before duplicating the number of copies you paid for; no license is required. This permission does not include rights to distribute/sell your translation to others; this requires an International Distribution Agreement.
If any other copyright or rights administrator is listed: please contact us, and we will provide contact information for any third-party lyrics rights holders.
Note: If you wish to distribute or sell translations of our music, please see our International Distribution and Translation License

Our music you've adapted to print in your program for congregation/audience involvement (where we do not already offer a reproducible congregational product): Adaptation License
Our music, (or your arrangement/transcription of our music, after you've secured an Arrangement License), by itself or in a collection, for print or digital distribution: Print License
For international distribution of our music (in translation or in original form): International Distribution and Translation License

Write further arrangements of our music:

For small-scale customizations of our music (choral or instrumental parts), i.e. simplifying choral parts for a small men’s section, adding one obbligato instrument to a piece, or creating your own congregational part to be printed in your bulletin: Adaptation License
For arranging or revoicing choral parts for an entire piece (not just one section): Choral Arrangement License
For creating an instrumental ensemble accompaniment (i.e. string quartet, brass ensemble, orchestra, wind band, etc.) for our music or an instrumental version (without choir) of our music: Instrumentation/Orchestration License

Perform our music Live:

Worship services (not sacred concerts) and K-12 school performances are exempt from performance licensing for live performance. However, licensing may still be required for streaming/webcasting worship services or concerts; see below.
For concert performances (including sacred concerts), we recommend an annual ASCAP performance license to cover your performances. If you do not have a current ASCAP performance license, use our Performance/Streaming License. (For performances of Dan Forrest's LUX, breath of life, and CREATION, use the licensing options included on their Rental pages.)
For Livestream/Webcasts of...

Worship Services which include our music: use a Streaming Add-On License from either CCLI or One License, which cover a variety of common aspects involved with streaming. See explanation of these companies at the bottom of this page, and see our Social Media and Live Streaming policy for more details.
Concerts:

For College/University livestreams, please use ASCAP's Recital License, and report the repertoire in your annual survey. (This captures specific revenue for our composers).
For K-12 School livestreams, we recommend the new School Music License which covers a variety of common aspects involved with streaming, for virtually all major publishers.
For other choirs in concerts (community choirs, professional choirs, etc), see our Performance/Streaming License for details on when a license is required. (updated August 2024) If your video requires payment to access/view, use our Performance/Streaming License. If you plan to leave your video posted after the livestream and monetize it (i.e. collect ad revenue), a separate Monetized Video License is required. See our Social Media and Live Streaming policy for further explanation.

For Radio or TV broadcasts (live or pre-recorded): Broadcast License

Use your recording of our music:

Rehearsal tracks: rehearsal tracks are available from Beckenhorst (starting spring 2023) or from ChoralTracks for previous publications. If you wish to create your own rehearsal tracks instead (vocals and/or keyboard), please use a Rehearsal Track Add-on license from CCLI or One License. (updated April 2023)
Downloadable Audio (i.e. permanent downloads distributed through iTunes, Amazon Music, etc., or your own site, even if free) or CD (whether sold or given away): Mechanical License. We encourage direct voluntary licensing; we are not registered with Harry Fox.
Streaming Audio (i.e. Apple Music, Spotify, etc): the streaming platforms pay us this licensing (through The MLC). Please carefully list title, songwriter/arranger, and publisher (check the copyright statement for Beckenhorst or Music of Dan Forrest) with your album distributor, and notify us of the album so we can match with it at The MLC. Mechanical license is also required if downloads are also available.
Online Video (posted on YouTube, social media, or your website, without downloads available): See our Social Media policy for required description information. A Monetized Video License is required if you are collecting ad revenue on your video. A Performance/Streaming License is required if you are selling paid access to viewing your video.
DVD (video) or a permanently downloadable video file, whether the music is performed on-screen (e.g. concert video) or off-screen (as a soundtrack), whether sold or given away: Synchronization License
Radio or TV broadcasts of a performance (live or pre-recorded): Broadcast License

Questions? Contact us here.

*CCLI/One License:

These companies provide blanket licenses (covering the complete catalogs of hundreds of publishers) for churches, who then report their music usage on surveys. (CCLI leans more toward evangelical/contemporary publishers, and One License leans more toward liturgical publishers; we partner with both, so you can use either one). Live performance in a worship service (not a sacred concert) is exempt from licensing, but if you print our lyrics in your bulletin (Print Use) or project our lyrics on a screen (Digital Use), you need a standard license from one of these companies. If you live-stream your services, you can also add their Streaming Add-On licenses. (Content streamed through major streaming platforms like YouTube is technically already covered by existing agreements between ASCAP and these platforms, regardless of who is performing it; but other aspects of streaming (e.g. showing lyrics) require this additional license add-on.) If you create your own rehearsal tracks, you can use their Rehearsal Track Add-On license. Please carefully report all of your usages to whichever company you use. This doesn't cost you anything more, but allows us to capture our share of revenue and then share it with our composers and lyricists.

Master List of our Licenses, for reference:

These policies are subject to revision and change at any time. Please consult actual license request forms (available in links above) for complete details, terms, and conditions of each license.

Composers: "The Business of Composing: Part 2, Licensing" is a freely available comprehensive guide (written by Dan Forrest and Jake Runestad for ACDA with information current as of 2023) to the various revenue streams available to composers from licensing.