dougs@tekecs.UUCP (03/21/84)
Several years back my (ex-)church choir decided to clean up their act (not
for ethical reasons; we had just heard rumors of a church's music department
in the mid-east that was sued for copyright violations, and was fined
$10,000 PER COPIED PAGE!). One of the copyrighted items we used regularly
were orchestrated background tapes (the released record without the vocals,
so that we could sing along). We wrote the publisher to find out what we
were really buying when we bought such a tape. According to them, there
were exactly two circumstances in which we could copy these tapes and not
be breaking the law:
1. Make one complete copy to use for rehearsals and performances, and
store the master in a vault and NEVER play it (use it only for
replacing the copy if it ever gets trashed)
2. Record our group singing with the background tape "for rehearsal
purposes only", and recording to be erased "shortly after the
rehearsal was over"
This church still uses hand-written copies of lyrics to contemporary hymns,
which are projected onto a wall during the congregational singing. They do
not regard this as a violation of copyright. I do: it is one of the reasons
I no longer attend there.
Doug Smith
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ECS System Peripherals
Tektronix, Inc.
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Doug Smith
{...!tektronix!tekecs!dougs}
ECS System Peripherals
Tektronix, Inc.
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