Making a profit from worship is wrong. Contemporary Christian artists, writing, recording and performing songs for God's purpose, with their intentions 100% to serve His Kingdom, should not be selling the right for Churches to use their music in services for whatever purpose that may be (playing sheet music with lyrics displayed on an OHP being the most common use).
I'm not going to go as far as to say that Christian 'Worship' music should be free to download, because, as the Christian Music Industry would suggest, the money raised from CD sales can go back into the Church and hopefully then, back into supporting the community.
But charging Churches through Christian Contemporary Lisencing International (CCLI) for using the music for the purpose for which it was made is a ridiculous showing of greed and non-communal action.
The current Australian Copyright Council outline on copyright in Churches is a very basic and dated model, that offers very realistic and somewhat generous copyright measures for non-profit use of a commodity in a capitalist market - but the Worship music "industry" should run on the Christian principles of sharing and encouraging, and the model for this already exists with Creative Commons Lisencing.
I get the feeling Jesus would be cracking whips and turning tables over the profiteering out of 'Worship'.
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