i should have posted this earlier...but as stated before...
under the copyright law... you can't even preform songs at your church without permission (see below)
So everyone that is still tripping out... all of it is wrong...(burning,tape ministry sales, and the A&B selection) unless you have express written consent.
What Copyright Law Covers
According to the U.S. Copyright Office, copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of "original works of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.
Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and authorize others to do the following:
-To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords;
-To prepare derivative works based upon the work;
-To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.
-To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographed works, pantomines, and motion pictures, and other audiovisual works;
-To display the copyrighted works publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographed works, pantomines, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work; and
-In the case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by means of digital audio transmission.
The law prohibits anyone from infringing on these exclusive rights without first receiving permission from the owner. These rights, however, are not unlimited in scope. Sections 107 through 121 of the 1976 Copyright Act establish limitations on these rights.
