In a conversation with a top gospel musician, she lamented to me the reason why most Kenyan gospel artistes, including herself, have abandoned gospel for the secular industry. With regards to copyrights and gospel music, the laws that apply to secular music equally apply to gospel music. Copyrights in gospel worksCopyright protects gospel music in the same way it protects other genres of music. Willy Paul’s song Sitolia, which is labelled a gospel song, is afforded the same protection by copyrights just as his song Nikune, which is not considered to be in the realm of gospel. HymnsWith regards to hymns, most of them are in the public domain and are not subject to copyright protection.

Source: The Star July 24, 2020 01:30 UTC