This article gives some help in how to publicly acknowledge copyright on songs used in worship.

This article looks at the application of the intellectual property laws and copyright laws to literature. The author focusses on the concepts of authorship and the use of ghost writers. 

Showing that copyright is not a moral law but a utility law, this article argues for the softening of copyright laws or the abolishing of them. The author applies this argument to the copying of songs for church use, and raises some alternatives to current copyright law.