webmaster wrote:Sharing database files in this way could be seen as infringing copyright.
We don't want to encourage this sort of thing
This is a real conundrum, isn't it? Since we have the songbooks and the CCL for reproducing the words, we are duly licensed to have all the songs from Mission Praise on Zionworx within copyright laws.
The only problem is that I have only a hundred songs' words on the PC... the rest need typing (or scanning & OCR). If someone else has already done the work of getting the text into Zionworx (being duly licensed in the same way, of course), then it is also going to be legal for them to help me by providing me with an electronic copy of the words.
Now Edd's comment is cautious because he writes "could be seen..." (ie: although it would not
de facto be infringement, there remains the possibility that someone might supply the lyrics to another person who is
not duly licensed, and at that point there
would be infringement of copyright.)
I'm very annoyed by the fact that some Christians see fit to break our country's law (and they do present 'arguments' in favour of their attitudes, presented on bulletin boards for similar song projection software). If only Christians could be trusted to have Godly integrity in this matter, then someone else would be able to take me at my word when I claimed to have a CCL and would gladly save many hours of work. As it stands, the sub-Christian dishonesty of some means that Edd has to sound this cautionary note, and similarly makes me equally cautious about sharing my data file with someone else.
What a sad comment on the state of morality within Jesus' Church. And what a waste of Kingdom time in me (and many others) having to type out the lyrics again. O "brave new world" that has such people in it... and we are
meant to be the light of the world.