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01/13/2026

Episode 4 of ONE LICENSE's educational web series, Sacred Sounds, is now available!
This Episode of Sacred Sounds features an interview with Don Stewart, history of the public domain tune Victory, and answers the question "is my hymnal covered through ONE LICENSE?"

12/29/2025

As the 2025 calendar year comes to a close, the ONE LICENSE team would like to thank all of our License Holders for a wonderful year of ministry! We are grateful for you and your ministries, and wish you all the best in the year to come. 🎆

As the 2025 calendar year comes to a close, the ONE LICENSE team would like to thank all of our License Holders for a wonderful year of ministry! We are grateful for you and your ministries, and wish you all the best in the year to come.  ONE LICENSE 2025 Highlights: With nearly 28,000 active licen...

12/24/2025

12/22/2025

Wishing you health, peace, and joy all through the holiday season and blessings into the New Year.🎄

Sincerely,

The ONE LICENSE Team

12/19/2025

Continuing in our series Utilizing Public Domain for Your Ministry, we examine another public domain work. In this case, both the text and tune are in the public domain. We hope this series inspires your ministry and invigorates your worship!

Continuing in our series Utilizing Public Domain for Your Ministry, we examine another public domain work. In this case, both the text and tune are in the public domain. We hope this series inspires your ministry and invigorates your worship! GO, TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN likely began life as one of t...

12/15/2025

ONE LICENSE welcomes Essential Music Publishing, LLC a leading publisher of contemporary worship music, to its roster of Member Publishers.

Essential Music’s catalogs include popular titles from Hillsong (North American use only), Elevation Worship, Hippart Music and Matt Maher. Thousands of titles are now available to license and download through the ONE LICENSE website, with additional titles being added each week.

— PRESS RELEASE — December 1 2025, Chicago, Illinois–For Immediate Release Essential Music Publishing, LLC Joins ONE LICENSE ONE LICENSE welcomes Essential Music Publishing, LLC a leading publisher of contemporary worship music, to its roster of Member Publishers. Essential Music’s catalogs ...

12/12/2025

Check out our monthly newsletter! December Edition: Holiday Hours, Essential Music Publishing, LLC Joins ONE LICENSE, and Year in Review

As the 2025 calendar year comes to a close, the ONE LICENSE team would like to thank all of our License Holders for a wonderful year of ministry! We are grateful for you and your ministries, and wish you all the best in the year to come. 

12/10/2025

Episode 3 of ONE LICENSE's educational web series, Sacred Sounds, is now available!
This episode of Sacred Sounds features an interview with Jason Silver, fun facts about Go Tell It on the Mountain, and helpful tips on reporting arrangements.

12/04/2025

Episode 2 of ONE LICENSE's educational web series, Sacred Sounds, is now available!

This episode of Sacred Sounds features a look at Bradley Sowash's piano arrangement of Amazing Grace, an overview of Gustav Holst's THAXTED, and how to search the ONE LICENSE database.

11/19/2025

Check out our November Newsletter!

This ONE LICENSE 301 webinar was designed with our intermediate users in mind. We recommend viewing the ONE LICENSE 101 webinar recording before this 301 recording.

11/18/2025

We typically hold our annual “New User Webinar” during the first quarter of the year – but in recent years, thanks to feedback from License Holders like you, our team was inspired to create several new webinar opportunities designed to assist License Holders at all comfort levels. This ONE LICENSE 301 webinar was designed with our intermediate users in mind. We recommend viewing the ONE LICENSE 101 webinar recording before this 301 recording.

Learn more about whether to search by the TITLE or the HYMNAL fields, some options for displaying your copyright permissions and license number, and reporting various types of copyright usage in your account.

We typically hold our annual “New User Webinar” during the first quarter of the year – but in recent years, thanks to feedback from License Holders like you, our team was inspired to create several new webinar opportunities designed to assist License Holders at all comfort levels. This ONE LIC...