MorningStar
Music Publishers/Birnamwood Publications
Birnamwood Publications is the ASCAP affiliate of MorningStar Music Publishers.
All permissions and mechanical license requests related to music with a Birnamwood
copyright, or MorningStar copyright, must be made through MorningStar Music
Publishers or its affiliated licensing organizations.
Other
Publishers
Many MorningStar publications include works with texts or tunes copyrighted
and owned by other publishers. We do not have the right to grant reprint permission
for the use of these copyrights. Permission requests must be made directly
to all copyright owner(s) of the material you wish to use.
Licenses
If you will be using any of MorningStar Music Publishers copyrighted materials,
please select your request, fill out the online form and submit to us.
We
have listed our most common license requests below. If these
requests do not fit your needs, send
us an e-mail explaining the nature of your request.
Mechanical
License Request (recordings)
Permission
Request (reprints in worship aids, etc.)
Photocopy
License
Synchronization
License
Performance
License
Mechanical
License Requests (recordings)
A mechanical license is required prior to reproducing recordings of any MorningStar
Music Publishers copyrighted material onto CDs or cassette tapes. The fee is
determined by multiplying the number of produced CDs or cassettes by the current
statutory rate of $.091 per song.
Request
a License
If you plan to record music from our catalogue, please fill out the online
request form and submit to us. You may also choose to request a license
from the following affiliated licensing company.
Harry
Fox Agency
MorningStar Music Publishers is represented by the Harry Fox Agency, which
issues mechanical licenses and collects fees for many music publishers. You
may choose to request a license directly from us or through Harry Fox.
Permissions
Requests (reprints)
Permission must be requested prior to reprinting MorningStar copyrighted material
in a bulletin, program, worship folder, or individual song sheet. MorningStar
can only give permission for those texts and tunes copyrighted by MorningStar
Music Publishers. There is a flat fee based on frequency of use: One Time Use
($10), Seasonal/Yearly Use ($25), and Lifetime Use ($40).
Request
a License
You may use the online form to request permission
from MorningStar directly, or you may use one of the following affiliated licensing
companies.
OneLicense.Net
In order to help churches reduce the need to continually contact publishers
for reprint permissions, MorningStar Music Publishers has joined OneLicense.Net.
For one yearly fee, OneLicense.net provides church musicians with yearly
or single use licenses to reprint congregational hymns and songs of its
several publisher members. OneLicense.net also provides online reporting
which allows churches to easily inform publishers of the titles they have
reprinted.
CCLI
MorningStar Music Publishers is a member publisher of Christian Copyright Licensing
International. CCLI provides various types of licenses to help churches with
congregational worship. The most popular license is the “Church Copyright
License”, which gives reprint permissions for overheads, songsheets,
songbooks, bulletins, etc. CCLI provides this license for a yearly fee and
requires churches to report their copying record. For more information about
all types of CCLI licenses, please visit their website.
Photocopy
License
MorningStar does not typically grant permission to photocopy. In rare situations,
however, we will grant photocopy licenses which will precisely indicate a certain
number of copies for a specific work. The license will also require that a
unique copyright notice is placed on all copies, showing that permission was
received from MorningStar.
If
you feel that you need a photocopy license, please email our
permissions department with the following information:
Title
of publication
Catalogue
Number (begins with MSM)
Name
of Composer and/or Author
Details
of specific use and purpose for photocopies
Synchronization
License
A synchronization license is necessary if you plan to use MorningStar copyrighted
material in conjunction with visual images, such as television, movies, videos,
and DVDs.
Please email our permissions
department with the following information:
Title
of publication
Catalogue
Number (begins with MSM)
Name
of Composer and/or Author
Date
of release and specific details of use
Performance License ASCAP is
MorningStar Music Publishers’ performing rights organization.
They will administer performance licenses on our behalf.
You may also email us with your request.
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