ol” (Iona Community) at Christmas, and “Come as you are” (Deirdre
Brown) at a family service, and “Touch the earth lightly” (Shirley Murray/
Colin Gibson) at an eco-care themed service.
Maybe almost all your services have migrated from multiple books to a
screen or a single booklet. In that case, you need to go online and record your usage every week. The system remembers your favourites so
you can find them easily next time you use them. There are buttons to
report print, digital, audio-recorded and translated uses of songs.
Being
Ethically, Legally and Cheerfully
Copyright Compliant
with your CCLI licence 2017
If your parish is already on top of copyright compliance, give
yourselves a big tick and keep on singing and playing with
pleasure.
If you’re not sure about what your CCLI licence involves, read
on. Here follows a friendly guide to doing the right thing.
Step 1. Pay up!
More than one person can assist with the reporting. It does not have to be the clergy person who led the service. A musician (who
knows what was played and sung) or an office
person (who knows what was printed or put in
the PowerPoint presentation) can be among
the copyright reporters.
When your parish treasurer returns the invoice
(issued from Diocesan office) with payment, you
have completed step 1. Note: the Perth Diocesan Trustees have negotiated a discount rate for
parishes under our diocesan umbrella, so you are
saving money, about 15%, on the standard rate.
The rate is based on the average size of your
congregation, with a range from attendances under 50 people to over 300. Check to see that
you’re paying the right amount for your size.
other licences you may want to look into if CCLI doesn’t cover your favourites
Word of Life has a special Taize-only licence. This is the only group which can
give permission to photocopy or project Taize songs and chants in Australia.
www.freelink.com.au
LicenSingOnline covers items like “Here I am, Lord” and other mainstream repertoire. Reporting system like CCLI. www.licensingonline.org
Step 2. Sign up!
CCLI requires you to tell them every time you reproduce one of the songs they cover. This is so
that they can pay the author and/or composer of
the song their royalties for your use of the song.
You need a logon for the CCLI website, and to get
your logon you need two six-digit numbers. These are
printed on your annual “licence certificate” and are the
same each year. You need your customer ID (at the
top of the page) and your licence number (on the certificate, next to the expiration date). If you can’t find
these numbers, contact Sharon Jayasekera
([email protected] ) at Diocesan Office;
she has a list. If you set your account up in a previous year, it continues when you have paid your fee
for subsequent years.
Once you have the numbers, go to www.ccli.com.au In
the narrow navy band at the top of the screen is a tab
“online reporting.” Click there, and you get a logon
box with a ‘create your profile” option Click there, and
follow the instructions. Choose a password that is
easy to remember – maybe the patron saint of your
church followed by the postcode. You will be sent a
confirmation email.
Step 3: Look it up!
CCLI covers a lot of church music, but not everything. It doesn’t cover
everything in a whole hymnbook or songbook; it covers individual hymns
and songs by particular authors. And it doesn’t need to cover things
whose author or composer died before 1955. The works of long-dead
people are “in the
public domain”
and you can copy
them without permission.
But for more recent songs, if
CCLI doesn’t cover it, you can’t
print or project it.
So, before you
settle on a song,
search it!
You can also search with the song search” button (nb not “SongSelect” this is a different product that costs extra!!)You can search by author, title, first line and more. Sometimes you may need to
try more than one search category to find your
song. For example, “Shine, Jesus, shine” comes up
under “Title,” whereas “Lord, the light of your love
is shining” comes up under “Text.” If it doesn’t appear despite your ingenuity in searching, it is not
covered by CCLI. For example, no matter how you
search Dan Schutte, “Here I am Lord” or “I the Lord
of sea and sky,” it does not come up, and it is not
covered. The same is true of all Taizé material;
CCLI does not cover any Taizé songs.
Step 4: Annotate it correctly!
Authors have a “moral right” in law to be identified as the authors of their work. So for each
song you print in a booklet or project onto a
screen, the author needs to be listed with the
song, not just at the end of the booklet. You
also need to note at the end of every song,
whether printed or projected, your CCLI number. So the annotation after “Shine, Jesus,
shine” will read something like:
words © Graham Kendrick reproduced with
permission CCLI XYZABC (your six-digit licence number).
Step 5: Report your usage frequently!
Maybe you mostly sing from the books you own, and only occasionally
print an extra song in a booklet or use a data projector for a special service or a funeral. In that case, on the occasions when you do print or project a copyright song, go online and record your usage at
www.ccli.com.au using the logon and password you acquired in Step 2.
You won’t need to include “The Lord’s my shepherd” or “Amazing Grace”
that you print or project at a funeral, or “Silent night” at Christmas, as
these are in the public domain. But you will need to report “The Aye Car-