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This might be old news to some, but in my research I found a fair amount of anecdotal “its ok” and some mis-information about the legalities of playing CD’s at a church service. I needed to figure it out and I wanted the hard facts – the law itself. This is what I’ve found out:

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Churches’ services, including the music portion. The defendant’s argument against liability was that he could broadcast the songs because the songs had been performed during church services. The court rejected the argument, stating that the exemption applies. Once you have downloaded the file by clicking on the button, then on your computer, use either the 'File properties' (in windows) or 'File Info' on Mac computers to check the number of bytes. This simple check should be sufficient to check that the download was successful. Free cr2 converter. A better check, is to use the checksum calculation as detailed below.

It is indeed legal to play the music from a CD as part of your service without violating the copyright. It doesn’t come from the fair use provision (US Copyright Law section 107 “Limitations on exclusive rights: fair use” ). This is a common misconception. It instead comes from section 110 “Limitations on exclusive rights: exemption of certain performances and displays” paragraph 3.

“(3) performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work or of a dramatico-musical work of a religious nature, or display of a work, in the course of services at a place of worship or other religious assembly;” Cartoon sound effects pack free download.

So, it is fine to to play the CD as part of the service. Now, this doesn’t include projecting lyrics or printing guitar tabs or choir parts, etc.; that’s all under CCLI. This also doesn’t cover recording the audio as part of an audio or video recording – that’s a reproduction issue and paragraph 3 provides an exception for performance, not reproduction. Also, there probably is some question about if you want to play a CD as background at a church potluck. I suspect that since such a performance is not during the “course of services” that it would not be legal. But, that is outside of my initial search parameters for playing music during a church service proper.

Here are my key sources:

• US Copyright Office
• Presbyterian Church (USA) Legal Resource Manual

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I hope this is helpful.

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