Welcome to CCLI’s Streaming Licence (“Licence”). To enjoy the rights and benefits your Licence provides, your understanding and adherence to the following is necessary, and you agree to:

Keep your Licence in good standing by paying the annual fee when it is due
Honour the terms and conditions of this programme as outlined in the following sections marked Permitted Activities and Activities Not Permitted
Validate the participation of each Song before you Stream it (see how in the Song Validation section)
Use the Licence in a lawful and ethical manner

Permitted Activities

An active Licence allows you to “Stream” (i.e. digitally transmit, retransmit, distribute and play back) participating Songs (“Songs”) from your church’s proprietary website, a hosted website or a streaming service in the following manner. You may:

Live stream Songs performed in your church services in audio and/or video form
Retransmit Songs performed in your church services in audio and/or video form
Distribute audio or video files of Songs performed in your church services to personal computers, portable media players or a similar device capable of receiving such files
Upload videos to YouTube and similar services provided that copyright owners have the right to monetise and place ads on videos containing their owned copyrights (these terms of agreement do not override those of the streaming platforms)

All rights not specified here are reserved to and for the benefit of the copyright owner.

Activities Not Permitted

This Licence has certain important and necessary limitations and you may not:

Charge a fee or receive any form of compensation for any of the Permitted Activities
Assign or transfer any rights under your Licence to any other church or group
Authorise any third-party that is not your church’s proprietary website, a hosted website or a streaming service to Stream Songs
Stream artist or record label recordings of Songs
Stream Songs from concerts, conferences and special events held at the Church property where a financial charge, including donations, is required for attendance
Stream Songs contained in non-Church Service audio and/or video content such as a non-Church Service teaching video, televised events or special productions
Regarding YouTube or any similar streaming service used by your Church, sub-licence or enter into any revenue sharing agreement for the monetisation of a Song, including videos that are derived from a streaming website or service but are embedded in your Church’s website, as this right is reserved exclusively to the copyright owner
Regarding YouTube or a similar service, block the use of advertising placed by a streaming website or service on behalf of a Song owner

Song Validation

CCLI’s Song Search available at ccli.com makes it easy to validate the participation of a song or catalogue in the programme.

Simply enter the song title in the search box and confirm the associated catalogue and author names. If your initial search results do not include the song you are looking for, check the box next to “Expand search to show all songs” for more results. Find a match and you’re good to go. If you do not find a match, the song is likely not covered by the Licence.

When in doubt, CCLI’s Customer Service is ready to help at Customer Support or
+44 (0)1323 436100.