Comments on: More on Copyright

By: simone r

simone r — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:37:14 +0000

yes. decided that I won't comment so won't.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:40:04 +0000

What makes you think it was for you? It was more that I thought your post worthy of inclusion. Did you read Will's post.

By: simone r

simone r — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:14:20 +0000

not biting.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:50:08 +0000

That would be fair dealing. You get out of most breaches by critiquing or using items for the sake of humour. You get into trouble if you quote stuff as though it's you own work.

By: Mikey Lynch

Mikey Lynch — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:23:27 +0000

I'm still intrigued by Will's comment that quoting a book or film or songwords in a sermon may be deemed a breach of copyright, from a legal point of view… is this right? Do we have to seek permission to read out a quote, properly attirbuted? Is that the law?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:54:07 +0000

You'd be surprised how often people steal personal stories and use them as their own. An analogy is different.

By: Leah

Leah — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:32:17 +0000

I think it's ok to borrow people's stories or sermon illustrations if you're not making money out of it, or not ripping somebody else off. And as long as you don't make it sound like you came up with it yourself, or that it actually happened to you.

For example, using someone else's lyrics to your own tune to avoid buying their song is wrong, but if you're making up different lyrics to a song for laughs for, say, a church concert, then that's fine. And using someone else's analogy in a sermon is fine, as long as you don't suggest it happened to you or that you came up with it.