[CS-FSLUG] open source worship songs

[Alan Trick]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 01:07 -0700, Chris Brault wrote:
> 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

I would have thought that sermons would have fallen under the Research
category (i.e. a theological study).