Precious in My Eyes by Leo Watt

4 Responses to Precious in My Eyes by Leo Watt

1. Ming says:

   January 17, 2016 at 8:45 pm

   How does a parish go about including one of the songs shared on this website? I am thinking about copyright / permission. And how about using it as quiet music or solo, rather than for the congregation? Thank you for sharing, Geoff and Leo.

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   • admin says:

     January 17, 2016 at 9:01 pm

     Leo has songs covered by Word of Life and some by LicenSing, so you would just include the songs in your returns.

     If a song isn’t listed then you talk to the copyright holder, in this case Leo himself.

     I don’t think the situation changes whether instrumental, solo or assembly. The exception would be copyrighted words to a public domain tune I suppose.

     (BTW If you find any of my own tunes useful they are creative commons, so go for it.)

     Geoff

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     • Mary says:

       January 23, 2016 at 1:10 am

       “I don’t think the situation changes whether instrumental, solo or assembly.”

       I think it does.

       Most countries(*) have a copyright exemption which allows any work to be performed as part of a worship service in a church building without permission. So if you have legal copies for your musicians – or at least the ones who cannot play / sing it from memory – then you can do an instrumental or music-team-only version of pretty much anything.

       The problem comes when you want to make a copy of the words (or he music) for congregation, or for some musicians. To do this, you need to get permission from the copyright-owner.

       Most copyright owners don’t want to deal individually with thousands of individual churches, so they let church-copyright organsiations (like CCLI, Word of Life. OneLicense.net or LicenSingOnline.org ) handle it for them.

       (*) I haven’t specifically checked if Australia has this: I’m want to be clear that I’m discussing the issue in general, not giving legal advice. But I’d be pretty surprised if you don’t have it there.

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2. Trish Etherton says:

   January 17, 2016 at 10:09 pm

   I just listened to this song and it is absolutely beautiful – music and lyrics. I will surely be getting this to use at our Parish centre. We use LicensingOnline, so hopefully can find it listed there, otherwise maybe give credits and royalties through another of Leo’s songs, as I can’t wait to use this one. It’s just the sort of tune and meaningful lyrics I love – so easy for non-choir congregations to sing and relate to. LOVE, love, love this song!

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