[CS-FSLUG] open source worship songs
Alan Trick
alantrick at gmail.com
Tue May 23 04:28:45 CDT 2006
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).
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