On Jun 25, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Lora Crighton wrote:
I'm helping out with the music at my church while we
are between music directors, and the priest has
suggested using a hymn that is not in the book we
currently use. This means that we would need to print
at least the words - the music as well
On Jun 25, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Lora Crighton wrote:
Would we need to get anyone's
permission for this, and how would we go about it if
we do?
Here is a Canadian specific site:
http://www.united-church.ca/local/copyright
Years ago, my church here in the US researched ways to comply, but we
At 9:30 AM -0400 6/26/08, Christopher Smith wrote:
There is also a mention of non-profit, but I don't know if churches
fall under that for the purposes of copyright, otherwise how would
hymnal publishers stay in business?
I'm not a lawyer either, but it seems to me that churches can be (and
I'm helping out with the music at my church while we
are between music directors, and the priest has
suggested using a hymn that is not in the book we
currently use. This means that we would need to print
at least the words - the music as well would be nice -
for the congregation. Would we need to
