<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">"CCLI obviously recommends, as strongly as they can, to display some of the song metadata.<br>However, CCLI wont, and cannot force you, to display this information if you don't want to.<br>It is eventually up to you to display it or not, or only part of it.<br>Apparently, CCLI never sued anybody because of not complying to their recommended footer content, especially if one has a valid CCLI licence.<br>The song title is more than enough for the people who are singing it."</blockquote>
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I think CCLI is very forthcoming about what they believe you need permission for. I don't think they try to mislead anyone as some of those articles suggest. But forget about CCLI entirely and see what you are left with.
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As a Christian I believe we are obligated to follow the law as long as it doesn't infringe on our moral beliefs. That means we need to be diligent in knowing what is required of us with regard to the International Copyright Law. You can't just say you don't think it applies to you without doing due diligence to learn what the law actually requires. A couple of articles of opinion found on the internet just won't do it. It also makes no difference if someone has ever been sued or not in the past. (The lawsuit won't come from CCLI anyway. It will come from copyright holders, most likely those holders who have large catalogues.) As Christians we should do what is right, not what we can get away with.