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Most churches rarely use the hymnbooks any more or those old songs, even though many of them are much better than some new songs that churches use today, especially some that appear to be written by songwriters just learning the craft. Up to a couple of years ago, the names of the writers and the song titles would appear on the lyrics on the overhead, plus the license number of CCLI identifying the song. Today nothing appears but the lyrics, not even the song title. I asked my pastor about it and he said they had renewed and upgraded their software and equipment and those items no longer appear on the files that they received. I questioned CCLI if there was any change in policy about showing this information and they said there was no change in policy. I told my church they better check it out because breaking copyright law is serious business. CCLI was started so churches could use copyright material by paying a fee to CCLI which paid the owner of the material they were using. Churches got sued years ago for the fact they were using material and copying sheet music and not paying for it. I don't want my church to get into trouble, and neither do I want to see them break the law, so I told them. I will question them again later to see if they checked into it.
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