White Paper: Copyright Issues for Webcasting Religious Services

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Does this apply to all webcasting, not just public webcasting?  If our church was to setup a restricted VPN for streaming to only one campus offsite, would that be violation of copyright law even though the remote campus may have all the licenses needed to present it live?  No one except that campus would be able to access the stream.  Is this situation treated differently than physically driving a DVD or hard drive to the remote campus for display?

I have a question – the church where I’m employed created a video of a church children’s outreach program.  Not a problem except that they used music they purchased on iTunes.  They showed the video at the local non-profit organization where the children did their outreach.  The non-profit would like to put the video on their web site and they came to me to ask about legality.  The church has a CCLI and a CVLI and a Rehearsal license, but I don’t think any of them cover this situation.  Am I correct in telling them that they cannot legally use the video on their website without getting specific permission from the band who recorded the music? 

That is correct Diane. You could not legally post the video online without permission from the owner of each copyright used in the project. In this example you will need to secure internet performance licensing for the song content (licensed by the author or their publisher) and for the sound recording (licensed by the artist or their label). You may also consider using CopyrightSolver’s PERMISSIONSplus to secure these licenses for you.