Hiding/Removing Artist/Song Name
Hello!
I just download this wonderful program a few nights ago, and have spent some time familiarizing myself with the program. I currently use EasyWorship for our church, but needed a program for my Mac that works. So far this has worked great, and absolutely love the program!
With that said, I'm in need of some general help. When I create a new theme, which to my knowledge is the way you just make a background image. I don't want it to show the song name, and the artist name on the bottom left of my screen. I somehow figured it out on my first theme I created, but now I can't seem to find it anywhere. Also, the images that I am trying to use for the theme background, they are importing full size, so it's showing a black background behind it. Any tips on that?
Thanks guys!
John
Comments
Having said that, if you look around the forums a bit, you'll see that some users have come up with various "solutions".
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.
CCLI exploits a "grey-area" in national copyright statutes where legislators have wisely left vagueness as to what constitutes "fair use."
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.
However, in regards to the music use of an average nonprofit church, CCLI's threats are baseless."
I think to challenge this in court, you would need someone a lot bigger then a megachurch, I'm thinking someone the size of The Roman Catholic Church, the publishers would love this, and spend all they had, to get systems like CCLI squashed, so you had to pay big bucks every time you want to display anything. I doubt it will ever be challenged, because CCLI is a reasonable cost, for a church of 99 people it's about $100 or so a year. Even a lot of large churches of under 3000 attendees it's only ~$500. Even an hours consult with a solicitor dealing with copyright law, will cost you more then $500....
However, sometimes people, particularly visitors, might like to know which version of a hymn your singing, without needing to pick up the hymn book, there are some that have dozens of renditions, especially Christmas music, with the authors and publisher on screen, it's possible to tell.
It's also useful to have the information available, and it's only fair to credit the authors. I've even learnt something about the songs we sing. For instance, I was surprised at the relatively small number of authors who wrote most of our songs.