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A few weeks back we talked with Kelly Barth about the technological nuances that are utilized as pastoral musicians today, especially in light of safety precautions for COVID-19. Today we look at the technological resource of copyright licensing. Now, I’ll speak just for myself and share that copyright licensing was not something I knew enough about prior to COVID-19. My parish had a reprint license through ONE LICENSE for years, but used it for prayer services, not on a weekly basis. However, ONE LICENSE was truly a godsend since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our parish is live streaming two liturgies each weekend as well as producing a weekly podcast, none of which we did prior to last March. I’ll sing ONE LICENSE’s praises throughout this episode because, to be honest, they made my pastoral work possible during the pandemic.
The ins and outs of copyright licensing can be difficult. How do we declare what music we are using, especially across print and streaming mediums? How do we report, how often do we report, and what do we report? These were just a few of the many questions I found myself scouring the internet for as I live streamed liturgies at my parish for the first time last year. And so I called Katie Deaver. Katie is the assistant manager of ONE LICENSE and was gracious enough to sit down and answer questions about copyright licensing that I hope will help many other pastoral musicians as well.
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Katie M. Deaver, Ph.D. serves as Assistant Manager of ONE LICENSE. Deaver's love of music and religion has allowed her to serve in a variety of music ministry settings, as well as to study and teach religion, feminist theology and ethics. She lives in beautiful Marquette, Michigan and is an alum of Luther College (BA) and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (MATS, THM, PHD).
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