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Copyright is probably something you hardly ever think about and you definitely wouldn\u2019t associate it with religion or worship, would you?<\/p>\n
Well, it may not affect religion directly, but Copyright is the law and it affects everyone, everywhere, even churches and places of worship.<\/p>\n
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So, what is copyright?<\/strong><\/p>\n By definition, copyright is \u2018the sole right to publish\u2019.\u00a0 This means anything that is protected by copyright can only be used, printed, performed or copied exclusively by its creator unless you have their permission to do the same.\u00a0 If you use copyrighted material without permission then you could have a law suit on your hands.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And how does this affect our church?<\/strong><\/p>\n Copyright affects you because the chances are, most of the material you use in your church or place of worship on a day to day basis is copyrighted.\u00a0 This can include prose extracts, poems, pictures you may print in your newsletters, music used as backing tracks and even lyrics to hymns you project during services or meetings.<\/p>\n Although you can get licenses to cover your use of some original materials, unfortunately there isn\u2019t a licence to cover your use of everything in the world.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Where should I start?<\/strong><\/p>\n Copyright is such a broad, complicated subject so we\u2019d like to point you in the direction of the United Reformed Church<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Getting to grips with copyright\u2019 guide.\u00a0 (Yes, we did ask their permission!)<\/p>\n We think this is a fantastic document and although it was written with URCs in mind, we\u2019re confident that the principles and advice within will still be able to help other denominations and organisations alike.<\/p>\n Copyright is probably something you hardly ever think about and you definitely wouldn\u2019t associate it with religion or worship, would you? Well, it may not affect religion directly, but Copyright is the law and it affects everyone, everywhere, even churches and places of worship. So, what is copyright? By definition, copyright is \u2018the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[186],"tags":[11,134,135,136,137,26,138],"acf":{"related_articles":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networkportfolio.co.uk\/edwardsinsurance.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networkportfolio.co.uk\/edwardsinsurance.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networkportfolio.co.uk\/edwardsinsurance.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networkportfolio.co.uk\/edwardsinsurance.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networkportfolio.co.uk\/edwardsinsurance.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.networkportfolio.co.uk\/edwardsinsurance.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/www.networkportfolio.co.uk\/edwardsinsurance.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networkportfolio.co.uk\/edwardsinsurance.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networkportfolio.co.uk\/edwardsinsurance.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networkportfolio.co.uk\/edwardsinsurance.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networkportfolio.co.uk\/edwardsinsurance.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}You can view the \u2018Getting to grips with copyright\u2019<\/strong> guide online for free by clicking here<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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You can purchase a printed copy for just 75p<\/span><\/strong> by clicking here.<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"