Re: A church service by telephone.

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:08:24 -0600, Quasin <quasin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Back in the days there used to be a lot of small scale copyright
violation. It wasn't as big an issue partly because the licensing
agencies weren't so active, and partly because violations were by nature
small scale. Today, with the ability to scan onto the internet, or
project from a single hymnal so all the congregation can be served from
one book, the economic effects of copyright violation can be huge.

I think in some ways the restrictions are too much, but given the
tendency of people, including churches, to cheat on copyright, the
wording of permission to do overheads from hymn books would have to be
air tight. "Please buy hymnals for everyone before making overhead
projections from a hymn book" won't sell hymn books. Publishers need to
sell their product.

I can't tell you how often I've seen photocopied music used by choirs
and organists in church!

On the other hand, getting small scale permission is difficult and
inconvenient. When I was in teaching many years ago now, we used to
photocopy textbooks ad nauseam as there were never enough to go round
the class. I raised the copyright issue with the reprographics
department in the school and they said that in order to get "written
permission" we would have to plan our lessons 6 months in advance and
know how many students would be at the lesson that day.

None of the staff wanted to be dishonest (after all the local
authority would pay) but there was no quick and easy way to get
instant permission. Instead of laying down the law, perhaps the
copyright owners would do better to make permission easier to get by
using, say, vouchers purchasable in the Post Office over the counter.

--
Alasdair.
.

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