Worship Lyric Videos provides inexpensive pay-per-track video and audio files of worship songs. Normally you have to pay extra for a streaming licence, but this fee has been waived during the coronavirus crisis. Jubilate has a large collection of music for worship, mainly of hymns. Many of these are simply a music score, but there is a separate list of lyric videos which are suitable for congregations, all available at a small cost. These are covered by the CCLI streaming licence.
You should be aware that many Jubilate hymns have modernised words which may sometimes be slightly different from the traditional wording. Resound Worship , a sister site to Jubilate, has a collection of new worship songs available under similar terms. The Evangelical Movement of Wales has made available its collection of recorded worship songs and hymns from previous conferences for use in church services.
Chet Valley Churches has compiled a large selection of hymns on YouTube, with backgrounds and lyrics. Small Church Music has a large collection of mp3 files, mainly of organ and piano recordings of public domain hymns, whose performance rights have been waived by the performer s. The website states that these can all be used free of charge, and can be streamed.
Now that it is possible in many territories to acquire a licence, you would need to do so. You don't, however require a licence to use our videos and recordings, and we continue to allow these to be streamed via all platforms until further notice.
We don't make copyright claims on YouTube and Facebook, so you should be able to include the songs without your feed being interrupted. We are offering a free bundle of 10 lyric videos for songs relating to Holy Week, Easter and the current crisis. Privacy Policy Safeguarding Policy. It's ok with me! Basket [ Empty ]. Licensing explained for streaming worship songs in the UK by Chris Juby. Posted at am on 6th April When you DO need licences the short version If you want to include copyrighted songs on your stream, you need to get licensed.
When you DO need licences the long version If you want to understand why you need those licences, the clearest way is to start with the basics of how copyright works for songs.
Bear with me — I promise this will help! As soon as someone writes a song, they own the copyright to that song. The different types of use are as follows: Use of the song Rights involved Performing the song to an audience Performance rights Making copies of the lyrics and musical notation Print rights Making copies of an audio recording of the song Mechanical rights Using the song in a video Sync rights Using the song in a theatrical production Grand rights 6.
Some activities like streaming involve more than one of those uses. Licensing for regular church services It will help us to understand streaming if we can see how streaming is different from a regular church service.
In a regular church service - a congregation gathered in a building, singing from hymnbooks, service sheets or a screen, accompanied by musicians - two of the above rights come into play: Performance rights because the song will be performed by the musicians and the congregation.
This use is not exempt from copyright, and churches need to have a licence and pay royalties for reproducing lyrics and notation This is where CCLI comes in. Licensing for streaming live worship Streaming is different from a regular church service.
So, how do you get those licences? To do things properly you need a Sync licence. You made it! Streaming artist recordings and videos So what about using commercial recordings or videos from artists and record labels? What rights are covered by the Facebook licence? You have permission to stream our songs: Resound Worship Jubilate Hymns Resound Worship Covid Streaming Statement During the Covid crisis, we want to make it easy for churches worldwide to stream our songs in your online worship.
Yeah, go ahead and use whatever you want. It really doesn't matter unless it becomes a huge hit and then you'll have people contacting you for a piece of the action.
Joined: Apr MD just outside Washington, D Lee is right. Most old hymns will probably be in the public domain which means you can use them however you wish. Just because someone else uses a public domain piece does not change it's status as being PD - you would only run into a problem if you tried to use a copyrighted recording ie. I believe music enters public domain after 80 years you should double check that though , but the copyright can be renewed for an aditional term - I think it's another All of this can probably be researched through the Library of Congress, and they would also be a good source to find out if there is a standing copyright on any piece you want to use.
It is also true that if you steal a bit of a melody or whatever from something, it is unlikely that anyone will mess with you, unless you start making money on it.
There is certainly a huge debate to be had over this sort of thing, but I don't really want to get into that here. I just wanted to pass on what I know. May all your thoughts be random! Joined: Nov Santa Barbara, CA. Whether or not a song still has a valid copyright depends on a number of factors, not the least of which is when it was first published.
Generally, copyright is now life of the author plus 70 years special rules apply if the "author" is a company. The Copyright Act has changed several times since and each variation applied different life, and all key off of when the song was first published. Works published before have a life of 28 years but can be renewed once.
Generally, however, copyrights cannot be renewed. A work enters the public domain after its copyright expires.
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