tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34185942.post115846646577657608..comments2023-06-11T03:51:05.671-05:00Comments on Susan's Pendulum: Copyright Laws and the Unity of the ChurchSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16152213210269075304noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34185942.post-1162153931157629252006-10-29T14:32:00.000-06:002006-10-29T14:32:00.000-06:00Yes, and we at the FBI enforce such laws. So don'...Yes, and we at the FBI enforce such laws. So don't make me come and get you.<BR/><BR/>Signed,<BR/>Inspector Erskine<BR/>(aka: minister of hugs)chaplain7904https://www.blogger.com/profile/14568518517581646470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34185942.post-1158530519542636672006-09-17T17:01:00.000-05:002006-09-17T17:01:00.000-05:00With regard to publishers having rights to the hym...With regard to publishers having rights to the hymns -- that's not what CPH is doing. They themselves paid for the hymns in LSB that aren't already in the public domain. And they are offering a license that really is a service to the congregations -- it allows the congregations to just pay the fee and let CPH deal with the permissions and the fees to the copyright holders. With regard to hymns, what CPH is doing is making it lots easier for congregations to comply with the govt's copyright laws.<BR/><BR/>And I understand the need for the authors and composers to be paid. Some of them aren't even asking to be paid, but just want to maintain ownership of their music so that someone else doesn't take it away from them, and then make the true writer pay the copyright-stealer for use of his own work. (Because that kind of thing does happen.)<BR/><BR/>Nevertheless, with all the emphasis on how important it is to abide by copyright laws, and with the fees (which look small to many churches, but which are huge for some of us who live in poor rural parishes), it sure does make a person think twice about wanting to use the same words everybody else is using. Which is a very very bad thing.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152213210269075304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34185942.post-1158516524623956362006-09-17T13:08:00.000-05:002006-09-17T13:08:00.000-05:00VERY good point.Well said. I wonder if somewhere ...VERY good point.<BR/><BR/>Well said. I wonder if somewhere along the line what will put a stop to this is if some hymnwriter's descendants decide to sue because CPH or another publisher cannot in any way have the TRUE rights to it. <BR/><BR/>In reality, no one has...but who should more than a relative, or a right to the proceeds from hymnal sales? Unfortunately, maybe it will take something like that to draw legal attention to it...then it will be impossible to actually print a hymnal and sell it in the first place.RPWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16686240798146992394noreply@blogger.com