[Worship] A CCLI Question

[Michael Lehr <michael.lehr@zetnet.co.uk>]

Alan Crume <a.crume@tcu.edu> wrote:
> Steve Cobb <steve@worshipfulheart.com> wrote@

> > My general feelings about this when dealing with Video slides is to
> > decide what's more important. In my opinion, a ccli number within the
> > projected announcements with some sort of decleration that all song
> > lyrics used are under that number would suffice. (of course that's my
> > opinion....not in the letter of the law)

> But if it puts you in violation of your covenant (contract) with CCLI
> (and through them, the artists) isn't that a scary thing? Check out what 
> the Bible says about how God feels about covenant violators....

Oddly (and I speak as both someone who benefits to an extent from
royalties through CCLI and who has also administered things from a
church standpoint), I don't recall any such conditions in UK agreements.
 Certainly they aren't stressed at all.  

Frankly, if usage of songs is being correctly reported, I don't see much
importance to the CCLI number being put on a slide.  Since CCLI doesn't
have any involvement in the copyright, it's the copyright details that
are more important.  Even then, I doubt that almost anyone would note
the information when a song is screened in worship.

I guess there's always the possibility that someone will photocopy an
overhead or print from a computer, but I rather suspect that
photocopying from songbooks is far more rife.

That being said, I do agree that if we enter into an agreement (even if
over-paranoid) we should abide by its terms.  That's only correct.  But,
in any case, it would be the CCLI reference of the *song* that would be
important, and not a reference to the user (which is totally irrelevant
in copyright terms).

Michael Lehr
Reflection Christian Music
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/mlehr/reflec/reflec.htm

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