"WHAT IS CCLI?<br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">CCLI is a collection agency that funds its operations, and the salaries of its scores of employees, by deceptively convincing churches that the churches are 'breaking the law' by doing what's necessary to sing songs in worship services.<br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">CCLI exploits a "grey-area" in national copyright statutes where legislators have wisely left vagueness as to what constitutes "fair use."<br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The vagueness is there because no one can draw a definitive line between fair noncommercial uses of music which benefit society, and commercial uses which benefit commercial persons.<br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">However, in regards to the music use of an average nonprofit church, CCLI's threats are baseless."
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now, I do pay for CCLI because I want to make sure all legal areas of our church our covered :) But this site makes it clear that there is no biblical law or national law limiting the use of not-for-profit businesses to display words benefiting a community rather than benefiting a commercial use like selling or performing.</font>