Copyright Settings

ProPresenter makes it easy to display copyright information for songs. When you import a song from SongSelect, the data is automatically filled in. If you create your own song files, you can manually enter the copyright information if you want to.

There are two places that you need to configure copyright display. The first place is in Preferences at the bottom of the General tab. These are the global settings that apply to every presentation in the library. As you can see, you can choose to show the copyright information on the first, last, first and last, or every slide of your presentation.

The License # box on the right is for you to enter your church’s unique license number. You will need to contact CCLI for this number if you aren’t sure what it is.

To change the copyright elements that are shown (Title, Artist, publishing information, etc.) click on the CCLI Layout... button. This will open the options shown below.

Each of the copyright elements are controlled by “Tokens”, a feature in ProPresenter that allows text from one part of the program to be automatically shown by a different feature. The tokens on the left are the active tokens, meaning these are the ones that will be shown. The column on the right shows all of the options available. You can add and remove tokens from the left column by clicking and dragging them in and out of the right column.

Clicking on Edit Template will open the Template Editor and allow you to format the position and text settings for your copyright information. Since tokens aren’t actually text, the only thing you’ll see in the text box is the copyright symbol. If you want to see how text will look formatted, add any text you want since this will be replaced automatically.

Once you have configured how you want your copyright information to be displayed, you will need to make sure a presentation has information to display and that it’s enabled.

To access the copyright information, click on the blue “info button” next to the presentation title at the top of the slide viewer. If you need to change whether or not the copyright information is shown for a specific presentation, check or uncheck the Display Copyright box.

This information is used by the tokens that you enabled in the previous section. If you include a token but there is no information in that text field, nothing will be shown on the slide(s) that the copyright information is displayed on.