BETTER BY SUNDAY
WHY CCLI? BECAUSE EVERYONE WINS. | Paul Herman
and more: A few years ago, I remember seeing a very the legal permission to:
• Clear expectations. poignant anti-piracy ad. The scene is a subway • Store lyrics on computer for visual projection
• Differentiating platform with a typical street musician, and • Print songs in bulletins, programs, liturgies,
between
practice
and
rehearsal. people come by and take money out of her guitar • Modeling by the leader. case. Apply that to our church setting, and it • Running efficient rehearsals. becomes worse. When music directors, worship • Posting the songs far enough in advance leaders and worship team members disregard • Make custom arrangements for vocalists
so people can practice. copyright laws or try to rationalize illegal behavior, and musicians, when no published version
Providing quality charts and recordings. it’s musicians stealing from musicians. is available
•
and song sheets
• Record live music (audio and video) from
your worship service
• Translate song lyrics into other languages
So next time someone shows up unprepared, In contrast, the majority of the funds that CCLI ask yourself: “What part of the system is receives in annual fees from licensed churches There are optional add-ons for streaming and
allowing or even encouraging this behavior to are paid out in royalties to song owners whose webcasting your worship service and sharing
happen?” When you figure that out, it becomes songs are blessing the churches. Here’s just audio recordings for rehearsal purposes.
a fixable issue. one example of the hundreds of stories we
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when no published version is available
hear - many from independent songwriters like SONGSELECT
Jason Whitehorn, who recently commented: Available to CCLI License holders, the SongSelect
subscription service is the most comprehensive
We had a medical bill that came at a time we source of worship sheet music on the web. Lyrics,
had not planned for... got a sweet check in the Chord Sheets, Lead Sheets and Vocal Harmony
mail that God had planned for when He helped sheets from over 100,000 worship songs are
me write a song, He helped CCLI take loving available, including all the top CCLI songs.
care for the administration of it... and had your
churches care to sing it and report its use. I CVLI AND THE CHURCH VIDEO LICENSE
cherished that check and the provision. The Church Video License provides the legal
coverage for churches and ministries to publicly
CCLI was founded in 1988 by a worship leader show movie scenes for sermon illustrations and
in Portland, Oregon. As churches began to use full movies for a wide range of ministry events.
other methods besides hymnals to assist with Over 1,000 producers are covered by the
congregational singing, that’s when copyright license, including all the top Hollywood studios.
issues began to surface. In 1984, a church music
Jon Nicol
Jon is the founder of WorshipWorkshop.com
and WorshipTeamCoach.com, two sites that help
worship leaders build strong teams and lead
engaging worship. He lives and serves in Lexington,
Ohio with his wife Shannon and their four (very
loud) kids.
WorshipWorkshop.com
publisher sued the Archdiocese of Chicago for HONORING THE CHURCHES AND THE CREATIVES
over $3 million for illegally photocopying sheet In a culture where intellectual property is often an
music, and the lawsuit became national news. afterthought, CCLI has provided solutions that
Howard Rachinski, CCLI’s founder, developed serve churches and ministries while honoring
the blanket license concept, and the CCLI license the songwriters, publishers and movie studios
quickly became the solution for the copyright that create the songs and modern-day parables
issues surrounding typical church music copying that bless our gatherings. The worker is indeed
activities. Over 160,000 churches across North worthy of his hire. And CCLI is honored to serve
America now have the CCLI License. and bless both those who minister within the
church and create for the church.
Representing
over
3,000
church
music
publishers and the vast majority of the worship
songs sung in churches today, the CCLI
License provides churches and other ministries
September 2018
Paul Herman
As a songwriter, worship leader and team member,
and serves as CCLI’s Content Creator in the U.S.
Service Center in Vancouver, Washington.
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