[CS-FSLUG] open source worship songs

[Chris Brault]

There's a difference,

> I was talking about just referencing the work, not reproducing it in
> full. If they just ripped the whole song off then I'd think that's
> pretty reasonable, but I'm pretty sure that paraphrasing and quoting are
> still Fair Use and for Fair Use it doesn't matter whether or not your
> making money off of it. For example academics publish papers all the
> time where they talk about work other people have done, and normally
> they get payed for it too.

News and Research are two magic words when it comes to "Fair Use". 
Government schools are "non-profit" and are allowed to use excerpts for 
educational purposes (classroom or research documents).  A church is 
"non-profit" but does the use of the material fit into "news" or 
"research"?  The courts seem to have agreed that those two reasons are 
the only exceptions to the general rule.

Gabe Ginorio