If you wish to use commercial music -eg. something written and recorded by professional musicians that you've bought on a CD- on a video of your own making on your website, you need to get three types of clearance before you can go ahead.

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CCLI (Christian Copyright Licensing International) do NOT cover licencing for use of music on websites.

It may help to start by reading the FAQs from http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/about_us/press/Pages/PressFAQs.aspx



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Getting permission to use copyrighted music in your video on your website.
Different rules apply for different uses of music on a website, so if you want to use music on a website but not in your own videos, you should check the rules with MCPS, PRS and PPL.


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And because of the different ways of structuring sentences (grammar) in different languages, and special ways of using words, it is possible to end up saying the same thing in different ways. If you've ever tried to learn another language, French for example, you will understand the difficulties!

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So, basically, the reason there are diffferent translations of the Bible is that it was originally written in Hebrew and Greek, so needed translating, in our case, into English.

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Since that time many other translations (or versions) have been written to try to get the balance right between being faithful to the original Hebrew and Greek words, and at the same time communicate the original meaning, in a form of English which can be understood by today's reader.

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A man called Tyndale translated the New Testament from Greek into English and got as far as translating half of the Old Testament, before he was caught and executed for committing this crime. But then King Henry VIII spilt from Rome and the authority of the pope and decided to commission an official English Bible. This was superseded by the King James Bible, or Authorised Version in 1611.

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