New online CoGoP community

PastorDaniel · Postby **PastorDaniel** » February 1st, 2008, 11:02 am

I would have to state that I believe that putting the name COGOP on a ministry does not infringe a copyright if the person is a member or minister in the COGOP. Copyright infringement is when someone that is not a member or minister wants to use the name.

Otherwise...I couldn't put it on my local church...place a COGOP logo on my vehicle, my website, or anything else without permission.

Without members...there is no church. We as members and pastors ARE the Church of God of Prophecy until we decide to leave and withdraw our membership.

Pastor Bill · Postby **Pastor Bill** » February 1st, 2008, 11:34 am

PastorDaniel wrote:I would have to state that I believe that putting the name COGOP on a ministry does not infringe a copyright if the person is a member or minister in the COGOP. Copyright infringement is when someone that is not a member or minister wants to use the name.

Otherwise...I couldn't put it on my local church...place a COGOP logo on my vehicle, my website, or anything else without permission.

Without members...there is no church. We as members and pastors ARE the Church of God of Prophecy until we decide to leave and withdraw our membership.

Sorry, I think you misunderstood. It's not the CoGoP that is copywritten, but the iWorship Videos that were put out there. Without permission to post those publically, the owner of the site could be sued. The question was since this is a CoGoP site, could they hit the entire organization or just that pastor.

I believe it would only be that pastor, because this isn't officially coming from the IO.

You are correct, we are the CoGoP, and can use that name, logo, and even the flag if you want, anywhere we feel appropriate.

Dr. Ron · Postby **Dr. Ron** » February 1st, 2008, 1:28 pm

This looks really neat. I may get a site on their just to connect with "old friends?"" I doubt any of my old friends can even use a computer..

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » February 1st, 2008, 1:30 pm

Dr. Ron wrote:This looks really neat. I may get a site on their just to connect with "old friends?"" I doubt any of my old friends can even use a computer..

you could even use the free dating service advertised!

hehehehee

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » February 1st, 2008, 1:48 pm

RamboPreacher wrote:you could even use the free dating service advertised! hehehehee

Yeah, I found the dating service humorous.

PastorDaniel · Postby **PastorDaniel** » February 1st, 2008, 5:36 pm

Pastor Bill wrote:
PastorDaniel wrote:I would have to state that I believe that putting the name COGOP on a ministry does not infringe a copyright if the person is a member or minister in the COGOP. Copyright infringement is when someone that is not a member or minister wants to use the name.

Otherwise...I couldn't put it on my local church...place a COGOP logo on my vehicle, my website, or anything else without permission.

Without members...there is no church. We as members and pastors ARE the Church of God of Prophecy until we decide to leave and withdraw our membership.

Sorry, I think you misunderstood. It's not the CoGoP that is copywritten, but the iWorship Videos that were put out there. Without permission to post those publically, the owner of the site could be sued. The question was since this is a CoGoP site, could they hit the entire organization or just that pastor.

I believe it would only be that pastor, because this isn't officially coming from the IO.

You are correct, we are the CoGoP, and can use that name, logo, and even the flag if you want, anywhere we feel appropriate.

Thanks for the clarification....I agree on the iWorship...hope he's covered the bases.

Billy n NC · Postby **Billy n NC** » February 1st, 2008, 8:23 pm

Pastor Daniel said;
Thanks for the clarification....I agree on the iWorship...hope he's covered the bases.

Yes Pastor Bill stated it clearly. Using the Cogop logos, name etc would not be a problem since he is a COGOP minister.

I was thinking that there may be an issue with the IWorship videos and copyrights. When I first went to the site it does have a Myspace flavor. Kinda like Godtube and Youtube. But In my eye the video section should be more like Godtube/Youtube in that they are videos from users and not purchased material. I clicked on one or two of them thinking I was going to be seing a COGOP person singing these songs and was surprised to see the Iworship versions.

I have seen a lot of discussion on other Media Ministry and Technology mesageboards concerning this topic. It gets really techie sometimes. Especially the licensing of material. Dewayne could problably enhance this subject.

I signed up on the site today. I think it has some possiblities to create a commmunity of COGOP people.

teach · Postby **teach** » February 3rd, 2008, 11:59 am

you know, since this thread on J2, there has been a ton of people join!

wendy k

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » February 3rd, 2008, 12:40 pm

It's probably overrun with J2ers.

I would join but there's one problem with that...I'm not COGOP anymore. AG for me at this point in time.

PastorDaniel · Postby **PastorDaniel** » February 3rd, 2008, 5:40 pm

EagerBeaver wrote:It's probably overrun with J2ers.

I would join but there's one problem with that...I'm not COGOP anymore. AG for me at this point in time.

It's for members and FRIENDS of the cogop....so are you not our friend anymore!

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » February 3rd, 2008, 5:47 pm

Oh I honestly thought it was only for members. Shoot, I'll join then!

teach · Postby **teach** » February 4th, 2008, 5:57 am

EagerBeaver wrote:Oh I honestly thought it was only for members. Shoot, I'll join then!

yea!

Jude 2