"The Parish Paper" Copyright

Our organization’s subscription to The Parish Paper gives you copyright permission to share with your clergy, staff, lay leadership, and members—for local use—in any or all of the following ways: E-mail, U.S. Mail, enclosing or reprinting in your newsletter, distribution at your meetings or training events, and posting on your Website.

If you mail photocopies with your newsletter or other mailings—using your U.S. Post Office Nonprofit Mailing Permit—most local Post Offices require that every item carry your organization’s name and address. Above The Parish Paper masthead, type your congregation’s name, address, and “Photocopied by Permission.”

Update 2/21/08

Parish Paper policy improvement for judicatory, seminary, and educational institution subscribers:

If an organizational subscriber posts The Parish Paper issues on its Website, it is now NOT required to use the password-protected section of its Website.

Why this change in policy? We have learned that many judicatory subscribers print The Parish Paper issues in their monthly newsletters—then, they post that same newsletter on their Website. Eliminating our “password-protected section restriction” makes that process more user-friendly.

Herb Miller, Editor
The Parish Paper

The Parish Paper – Ideas and Insights for Active Congregations
Coeditors: Herb Miller, Lyle Schaller, Cynthia Woolever - E-mail: HrbMiller@aol.com

Judicatory, Seminary, & Educational Institution Subscribers
Photocopy Rights and Restrictions

RIGHTS: Your purchase of photocopy rights for The Parish Paper INCLUDES …

• Permission to provide copiesto your staff and the congregations within your constituencyin any or all of the following ways: E-mail, U.S. Mail, newspaper, newsletter, meetings, training events, and post on the password-protected section of your Website. (The above permissions include both faculty and students of subscribing seminaries.)
• Additionally, each congregation within your judicatory or organization’s constituency—to which you distribute The Parish Paper— has permission to photocopy or electronically distribute for local use as many copies as it needs and to post them on its Website.         
• Permission to quote sentences and paragraphs (see the restrictions below).
• If you mail photocopies with your newsletter or other mailings—using your U.S. Post Office Nonprofit Mailing Permit—most local Post Offices require that every item carry your organization’s name and address. Above The Parish Paper masthead, type your organization’s name, address, and “Photocopied by Permission.”

 RESTRICTIONS: Your purchase of photocopy rights does NOT include …

• NOT permission to delete our copyright notice on page 2!
• NOT permission to re-write sentences, paraphrase sentences, or change the wording of sentences and paragraphs.  
• NOT the right to give to ANY THIRD PARTY—other than those listed above in the “Rights” section—permission to photocopy or reprint(in any quantity, no matter how small, whether for free distribution or for sale). Such photocopying or reprinting violates United States and International Copyright Laws. (The word “Copyright” is a legal term that means “the right to say who photocopies or reprints words, art, or music.”)