Can I get in trouble for posting just the video portion of my own work on a copyrighted Christian So

[Russ Campbell]

As far as I know th I s has never been done or I have never seen it on Facebook. Can I get into trouble for posting on Facebook just my video.portion of a copyrighted Christian song? In my case I display a lot of pictures of Jesus timed to the music only there is no music there. I am waiting for the artist of the song in question to respond to an email asking for permission.in writing to.post the whole thing. Note that with the video portion of my work with the exception of pictures, it is all my own work. I painstakingly transcribed lyrics and displayed them in the video. Russ Campbell

 

[dqhall]

As far as I know th I s has never been done or I have never seen it on Facebook. Can I get into trouble for posting on Facebook just my video.portion of a copyrighted Christian song? In my case I display a lot of pictures of Jesus timed to the music only there is no music there. I am waiting for the artist of the song in question to respond to an email asking for permission.in writing to.post the whole thing. Note that with the video portion of my work with the exception of pictures, it is all my own work. I painstakingly transcribed lyrics and displayed them in the video. Russ Campbell

Photos are subject to copyright law. If you used someone else's photos in your video without permission, you might be liable for copyright infringement. If you take photos in a museum, that is taking photos on someone else's private property. You would need permission from the museum to publish them, even if you used your own camera. Some museums allow no photography, others allow photography for personal study, but not for publication unless you pay them a fee and get written permission. Some museums allow photography and publication without permission.

 

[Russ Campbell]

I am talking about photos of Jesus that are readily available on pinterest and other sites, everyone is doing that.

 

[dqhall]

I am talking about photos of Jesus that are readily available on pinterest and other sites, everyone is doing that.

Some of the stuff on Pintrest is copyrighted. If millions of people will see your work, you have a higher risk of a copyright infringement suit than if no one clicks on your video.

 

[Danielwright2311]

Copy write only applies to selling a product or video or song that is copy written.

 

[Dave-W]

Copy write only applies to selling a product or video or song that is copy written.

Not so. Churches used to get bankrupted back in the 80s and 90s over copyright infringement for their hand scrawled overheads. No one was buying or selling anything.

That was why CCLI was formed.

 

[Danielwright2311]

Not so. Churches used to get bankrupted back in the 80s and 90s over copyright infringement for their hand scrawled overheads. No one was buying or selling anything.

That was why CCLI was formed.

Yes, they where profiting from the hand scrawled overheads, if not, there would be nothing to sue over, its that was the case, every one in life can be sued for hanging pictures of people in there business or house.

 

[Dave-W]

Yes, they where profiting from the hand scrawled overheads, if not, there would be nothing to sue over, its that was the case, every one in life can be sued for hanging pictures of people in there business or house.

Not so. The only reason they were using overheads was so people could follow the lyrics, and the overhead was cheaper than buying hymnals or printed sheet music for everyone. Making copies of the lyrics (whether you make money or not) is illegal in the US without paying royalties to the copyright holder.

Those churches were not making any money from the overheads. In one particularly egregious case, Bill Gaither sued a small church for a hand written overhead of "He Touched Me," and bankrupted the congregation. Took their building right away from them.

You should read up on US copyright law.

 

[justme6272]

I painstakingly transcribed lyrics and displayed them in the video. Russ Campbell

It's not clear what you mean by this. If you mean that you wrote all the words down by listening to the song and put them out on the Internet without permission of the copyright holder, then yes, thats' a copyright violation. Youtube is flooded with such violations, but if the copyright holder doesn't complain, youtube doesn't do anything about it.