[CS-FSLUG] open source worship songs

[Alan Trick]

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 21:57 -0700, Chris Brault wrote:
> Interesting dilemma,
> 
> > Anybody knows of any libre worship music?
> > 
> > Several of the kids I teach have a garage band, they're starting to 
> > sound pretty good.
> > I'd like to help them steer them away from either worshiping mammon or 
> > "stealing" "intellectual property".  They want to do what is right 
> > respecting doc's principles.
> > So far I've pointed them to jamendo.com  Not much to chose there of a 
> > worship nature.
> > 
> > Yama
> 
> If I'm correct, simply playing music isn't a crime, even music that 
> comes from a book (I suppose that putting it in a book by definition 
> means that someone else is going to play it).  I know that playing the 
> music isn't what requires a license, it's making money from it; 
> performance licenses usually aren't that much of a problem unless there 
> is cash involved, then the copyright is depending upon country.
> 
> So, don't be so worried unless money is going to change hands in 
> commercial profit.

I'm pretty sure your wrong, otherwise the MPAA/RIAA boogymen wouldn't
have a leg to stand on.

Alan Trick