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Arrangements For Video Recording

 

This document, or one like it, will be sent to you before your wedding.  You will be asked to have your video recordist sign it before we can agree to your having a video.  You should also read the document yourselves and make sure you understand the restrictions.  Please be aware that there are serious legal implications for you and the recordist if a video that does not conform to these rules is shown in public (especially if it ends up on You’ve Been Framed).  We are not trying to be awkward; we want to ensure that both the church and you are kept on the right side of the law, and also that an over-zealous photographer does not ruin your day.  The fees paid to the church help pay for the cost of our music copyright licenses. 
You may have to pay separate fees to the copyright owners of any poems, songs, readings, etc. that you choose to use.  These are entirely your responsibility.

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PERMISSION FOR THE USE IN CHURCH OF VIDEO RECORDING EQUIPMENT
FOR USE WITH SERVICES OF MARRIAGE ONLY

Parish of South Gillingham

Video recording of the marriage

of…………………………………………………………………

At………………………………………………

On……………………………………………..

This notice is issued by the incumbent to give permission for recording equipment to be brought into and used inside the church for the purpose of recording the above service subject to the following conditions that are in place to preserve the true character of a church wedding:

                                                There will be only one video camera

                                                The camera will be stationary, on a tripod and set up at the back of the church

                                                No trailing leads, extra microphones or additional lighting are permitted

                                                There will be an additional fee payable to the Parish of South Gillingham

                                                If another organist is playing, then the person paying that organist is responsible for negotiating an additional fee payable to that organist

                                                The Photographer MUST see the Minister taking the Service beforehand, to confirm that these instructions are understood and will be followed.

The attention of the recordist is drawn to the following matters:

1.     The law of copyright is complex.  It is most important that neither the incumbent nor the Parochial Church Council has any authority to give copyright permission for the lawful reproduction or recording of any work – literary or musical – which is protected by copyright, or to give consent on behalf of any performer or person having an exclusive recording right.

2.     Certain “blanket” arrangements have been made to facilitate the recording in church of the texts of the marriage service.  Without prior application having to be made to the copyright owners, copyright permission, subject to the conditions in paragraph 3, has been given for the recording on either videotape or audiotape of the following material:

                                                Solemnization of Matrimony from The Book of Common Prayer
                                                Solemnization of Matrimony first series
                                                The Marriage Service in the Alternative Service Book 1980
                                                Visual Liturgy
                                                It is expected that new forms of the service still under preparation will be covered by this.

3.     The conditions on which a tape of the material specified in paragraph 2 may be made without prior application are as follows:

a)    No rights in the recording and no copies of it shall be transferred or assigned in consideration of money or money’s worth i.e. the rights in the recording and copies shall not be sold commercially except that the original recording and copies may be sold to the couple who commissioned the recording

b)   No more than three copies of the recording shall be made.

c)    The recording, including an extract from it, shall not be exhibited in public.

4.     The copyright owners of the material listed in paragraph 2 charge no fee for this permission.

5.     These “blanket” arrangements and the permission relating to the material specified in paragraph 2 do not extend to any part of the service other than the text of the authorised service and psalms from the three Psalters.  Thus hymns, anthems, additional prayer, etc.  are not covered by these permissions and it is your responsibility to obtain permission for such other copyright material which is included in the service.  Many of the hymns and / or worship songs used in the service will be covered by the CCL Licence held by the individual church, please ask the Organist for information and also for the CCL number where this is applicable.  However, if popular music or poetry is being used in the service, these are unlikely to be covered by the License and unless the work is in the Public Domain (i.e. 70 years after the death of the originator) prior permission will be needed from the owner of the copyright.  Copyright subsists in a work at least until period of 70 years from the end of the calendar year the end of the calendar year in which the originator (author, composer, etc.) died.  Where there is doubt whether the material is copyright the publisher will usually be able to assist.  So far as copyright music and lyrics are concerned detailed advice of aspects of copyright is available from-

        Christian Copyright Licensing (Europe) LTD., PO Box 1339, Eastbourne, East Sussex  BN21 1AD Telephone 01323 417711.

 

I have read the whole of this notice.  I accept that the incumbent has only given me permission to bring into and to use video recording equipment inside the church subject to the conditions specified above.  I acknowledge that the incumbent has not given copyright permission or authorised the recording of any material or performance that may be protected by law:

 

 

Date…………………………………      

 

Signed……………………………………..  (Recordist)