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Posted by: Admin on 12/30/2007 04:34 PM
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If your looking to get your music heard. Be sure to contact me.
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Welcome To Praise To The Throne Publishing!
Praise To The Throne Publishing is a Publishing Company looking to help get your music heard!
With various style of music heard and played around the world and the independent movement almost in full throttle.
The music industry and other means of musicians actually getting paid for the hard work that they do seems to be at either a stand still or a steady decline.
Praise To The Throne Publishing is here to help you.
Understanding the copyrights and the industry in itself is a major factor if you are trying to do this for a living.
Getting your music out to radio stations, TV, and other means requires more than just the internet. At least for now.
If you are interested in getting your music published, Be sure to contact me.
Dan
(Praise To The Throne Publishing!)
Copyright Information!
If you don't know about Copyrights. I'm going to do my best to help provide some information here for you. Most people think that you can just send your music in the mail and it's legal. lol
I have actually done this. It's a great start. But if you plan on going further with your music you may have to actually break down and pay for it.
For each album you can do this for about 45 bucks. Online I have read now 35. Which isn't bad.
After spending some time out in Nashville. Learning as much as I could about the Industry. I realized how important this actually is.
People will rip you off. If your song is good enough.
Someone can take your song. If it goes to number 1 It could sell millions of dollars all going into somebody's pocket. You may say I don't care about all that.
As I go through some of this with you I want to show you what I have learned.
But for now, if you have any music that you feel is good. Be sure to start by getting them registered through the US Copyright Office!US Copyright Office!
There are many different areas but for the Music and full songs are the sound recording SR form.
Be sure to do many songs as an album or volume 1,2,3 or so.
This will save you a lot of money. Doing individual songs. You will be charged for each form you send.
Make sure you have enough to make it worth while.
Here is your start. Be sure to contact me if you get past this part. lol
Any questions?
Just ask.
God bless you on your new road to the Music Business!
Dan
Worship and Praise Copyright information!
The recording and distribution of worship music introduce some legal issues that are more problematic than just distributing the spoken word. Some churches have responded to the issue by eliminating the music from their recordings, distributing only the text of the sermon. Some have sought for a means to provide the music by searching out copyrights. Others have ignored the copyright laws entirely.
Copyrights give the owner of a piece of text, music, art or other intellectual property the exclusive right to copy, distribute, perform, and display the work. Copying, distributing, performing, or displaying someone else's work without permission is illegal. More importantly, it is unethical.
Unfortunately, well-meaning leaders in churches may be some of the most egregious offenders of copyright law.
Perhaps this is because of certain myths that have been perpetuated or justified in the minds of many people. Let us debunk them here.
When you perform a piece of music yourself, you have not gained rights to record the piece - it is still owned by the composer or whomever they have transferred the rights to. Purchasing the sheet music does not give the author's consent to allow you to reproduce it by recording. When you buy sheet music, you still do now own the copyrights.
Copyright law applies to the whole or parts. If, for example, you write your own music but use another's text, you may still be violating copyright, because the text has standalone copyright protection.
The lack of a copyright notice does not result in the loss of copyright to the author. An author does not have to register his/her copyright with the government for it to be in effect. Copyrights may be applicable even if the work has never been published.
The passing of the composer does not necessarily free up the copyrights either; when the author dies, the work typically remains under copyright, for at least an additional 70 years.
In short: If you didn't write it, you don't have recording rights to it unless you have been expressly (in writing) told so.
A daunting obstacle to recording church services? It would seem so. The only resolution, it would seem, is for the church to approach each publisher or composer of every piece of music in the program and individually contract the rights to use their music in a recording. This is hardly a practical solution.
But there is an easier way. Certain entities have emerged that act as a mediator between performers (including churches) and publishers or composers. These entities act as a clearinghouse, simplifying the process by charging a flat or per-recording fee to the churches and handling the copyright permissions on a larger scale on behalf of many churches with many different publishers.
Christian Copyright Licensing International www.ccli.com Here, for example, is an Oregon based organization whose mission is to make such activities easier while providing legal protection. The premise behind their service is that "copyright law is fair, but not practical".
CCLI pays royalties to songwriters based on calculations of the church's son copying activity. The church has access to the copyright owners of many different words through a single point of contact. In addition, the Church Copyright License covers reprinting songs, hymns, and lyrics in a church's bulletins, customized hymnals, overhead transparencies, slides, and special arrangements.
The way the Church Copyright License offered by CCLI works is that CCLI charges the church a fee based on the average number of attendees at that church. They also set a contractual limit to the number of recordings that the church can distribute. The church gains all of the benefits of legal copyright adherence without doing all of the work.
Since the main purpose of the license is to protect churches from violating copyright laws during normal ministry use of intellectual property, certain limitations exist to the service. For example, according to Paul Herman, CCLI's Marketing Manager, the license is not designed to allow a church to create commercial recordings for large-scale fundraising. The church, for example, can only produce a quantity of recordings that would not exceed 15% of their church size per service. Churches can, however, charge for those recordings, up to a fixed amount depending on the type of medium used.
In addition, "The recording feature of the license only includes live music. In other words you cannot re-record or re-duplicate and accompaniment track", says Paul.
In all, CCLI claims that over 140,000 churches in North America alone are using their service to have copyright access to over 150,000 songs.
By way of experiment, I used CCLI's online database to see whether the pieces from a special music program from several years ago would be covered by the license. Pieces included Mark Hayes' 'The God of Love My Shepherd Is', 'Praise Him' by Craig Courtney, 'Oh Sing Jubilee to the Lord' by Erik Hoff, the Hallelujah Chorus from Beethoven's 'Mount of Olives', and 'Before the Marvel of This Night' by Carl Schalk. Only the last in the list did not turn up in the database, the others all showed up as covered by the license or residing in the public domain.
Here again, churches should exercise caution even with a song or composition that is in the public domain "publishers may have copyright protection for their particular arrangements" according to Herman.
In the case of a song that isn't covered by the license, the church would have to approach the publisher directly for permission to record it during their service and distribute the recording. But cases like that seem to be the exception, not the rule.
In fact, even some songs not listed in the database are still covered by the CCLI license, if they are from a catalog that CCLI has an agreement with.
When I asked Paul Herman how confident he was that CCLI's agreements covered most of the songs typically being used in worship today, his answer was positive. "I would say that 90-95% would be a safe number. [The number is] really based on the publishers and song owners with whom we have an agreement and the various catalogs that we represent. In other words, if a publisher or a catalog is represented by the Church Copyright License then their songs are covered."
Conclusion
Technically, recording worship music is not overly difficult or expensive, it just requires time and planning. Even someone who is new to digital music can assemble and operate a reasonable recording and duplication system using the example above. Manufacturers like Tascam, Acoustica, Microboards, and others have designed equipment with the needs of churches in mind - taking in to consideration ease of operation and budgetary constraints.
Legally, recording worship music could be complicated, were it not for the help of organizations like CCLI that manage copyright agreements between many churches and many publishers. Thanks to their services, it should not be hard for a church to be in compliance with the laws that govern copyright, while simultaneously fulfilling their ethical obligation to the artists that produce the work of the church.
We also help to fulfill the commandment to worship through music. When he wrote the 150th chapter, the Psalmist probably never considered the potential that CDs and DVDs would represent for extending worship service outside the sanctuary. Now you have.
Created on 02/04/2003 10:24 AM by admin
Updated on 12/30/2007 09:32 PM by Admin
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