Licence documents

This page contains all the key documents relating to the CLA Schools Licence and the Schools Printed Music Licence.

Documents are separated into those relating to the terms and conditions of your licence and others which are either user guides and FAQs provided to help you to understand the licences and get the most out of them.

For general information, you might find it quicker to ask Copyright Geek and for any queries not covered there, please feel free to contact the Schools Team who will be happy to help.

CLA Schools Licence terms and conditions

The CLA Schools Licence is a legal document that has been signed by your Licence Coordinator on behalf of the school to acknowledge that staff and students will act in accordance with the terms.

All our current Licence documents are listed below under ’Licence terms and conditions’ and you can download any relevant one from here.

CLA Schools Licence User Guides

Schools Printed Music Licence terms and conditions

This licence is separate from the CLA Schools Licence. It has been made available by Printed Music Licensing Limited (PMLL) who are the licensing arm of the Music Publishers Association (MPA).

PMLL have appointed CLA as sole agents in selling this licence to schools. The licence provides cover for schools to make copies of printed sheet music. If you would like more information about this licence and how it works click here. A copy of the SPML terms and conditions is downloadable from the link below.

Certain titles are specifically excluded from the SPML by the publisher(s) and permission to copy these must be obtained directly from the publisher(s) concerned.