Comments on: Hosanna in many forms

By: Tim McKenzie

Tim McKenzie — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:53:57 +0000

Lisa: I agree; what you’ve described is less than ideal. I do think that creativity often builds on what already exists, but I’m not claiming that this is what usually happens when songs are re-recorded by someone else. And if an artist or group appears to implicitly claim credit for original work that isn’t theirs, then that’s really not good.

There’s probably some money changing hands when songs are re-recorded, but I have no idea what proportion goes to the artists, and what proportion goes to the record companies. I suspect that the copyrights are owned by the record companies, so the original artists might have very little say in who gets to re-record their songs.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:11:15 +0000

It does happen in the mainstream but not to this degree I mean Hosanna was only released last year and already we have 2 copies of it. The example you give is not that close. Also take NZ’s own ‘fill me’ originally by Maginify and now recently released on the ‘new’ parachute band’s new album ‘roadmaps and revelations’

Also I dare someone to go on to their Itunes store and look up ‘How Great is our God’ you should get hits from Hillsong , Bethany Dillion to name just a couple.

These people are talented musicians in their own right so I see no reason why they need to copy/borrow/steal other peoples songs.

Tim: If we worship a creative God why do we see the need to make cheap rip off’s of each others work – which is less than creative – and then sell it , and in the case of some artists , release these songs (written by others) on our albums, for profit, and in the case of Starfield as the lead single, as if we came up with the idea? Exactly what image does this portray about christians?

By: Nathanael Baker

Nathanael Baker — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:13:14 +0000

I was just doing research on christian music – its basically a monopoly from what it seems – most christian music goes through the EMIMCG publishing house – so its no surprise there would be “sharing” going on. Its a way for EMIMCG to make more profits I guess. I will do some further research on this.

By: Tim McKenzie

Tim McKenzie — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:44:55 +0000

I’d like to believe Nato’s guess that Christians don’t feel the need to assert ownership over particular expressions of worship, but I have no idea whether it’s right or not.

By: Nathanael Baker

Nathanael Baker — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:30:25 +0000

Christian artists and need the royalties?

We are lazy?

Hillsong is a multinational organization with loads of subsidery organizations. Since it is a mnc it is evil and is attempting to take over the world. It must be stopped!

I don’t know!