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Three worship conferences in 20 day…10 flights to 3 cities…three workshops per week. June is usually the month for vacations, but not for the CQ and her royal entourage. It’s worship arts conference season and that means visits to the West Coast, Midwest and Gulf Coast.
A far cry from a worship band's concert tour, all the miles and late hours are still more than worth it...the bonus, of course, is reconnecting with old friends, making new ones, great teaching, creative inspiration and incredible worship. One of my personal joys during our marathon itinerary was time at the Saddleback worship conference in Orange County, CA.
It all started with a phone call from worship pastor Rick Muchow in March 2000. “I know we’re not totally copyright compliant, but I’m not sure where to start.” We began helping Saddleback Church with their commitment to copyright compliance and then launched CCA in 2001, so it was really fitting that we announced the change of our name and expansion of services at the 2008 Saddleback event.
Church Copyright Administration (CCA) has been helping churches become fully copyright compliant since 2000, beginning with Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church. We are now expanding beyond the church walls to serve the broader Christian community with copyright services, licenses and solutions. To celebrate this expansion we are changing our name to Christian Copyright Solutions (CCS), offering copyright solutions to not only churches, but Christian camps, non-profit ministries, indie artists, media directors, youth ministries and producers.
In June, CCS launched an innovative copyright solution with the new one-stop PerformMusic License for church onsite events and functions from ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. The PerformMusic License allows churches to play or perform more than 16 million songs for non-exempt activities such as concerts, social and youth events, seminars, music-on-hold, aerobics/dance classes and playing music in coffee shops, bookstores and throughout church facilities. No reporting is required, and there’s one simple application with easy online sign-up and just one annual fee starting as low as $184. (www.churchca.com)
We believe that most churches today need the performance licenses from ASCAP, BMI and SESAC because they are performing or causing to be performed (playing music) in many non-exempt settings outside their religious services. For this reason, we have negotiated an easy, one-stop license with the PROs to simplify the process for churches to be compliant regarding performance rights onsite at their facilities.
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