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Copyright, Licensing and Paying for What You Use

This is part two of a series of posts that I will be doing on the issue of copyright and the church. As I have said before, I’m not a lawyer or a licensing guru, just a Church TechGuy who has taken the time to learn as much as I can on the issue. I encourage you do the same. If you’d like to start from the beginning, you can find my first post of this series here. Now lets jump into licensing and how to pay for what you use. Continue Reading…

Some facts about Copyright, Public Domain, Creative Commons and Fair Use

This past week some of our planning and admin team sat down to talk about copyright and licensing. Sort of a “what licensing do we have and what can we do with it?” meeting since these licenses are expensive and we want to make sure we are getting the most out of them and that we don’t have too much if any duplication. Needless to say we filled a couple of large white boards with legalese, different types of copyright, usage details and notes. So I’m going to boil it down to as short a list as possible to share with you. Continue Reading…