Originally Posted By: dcuny
Given the complexity of determining and demonstrating the rights to a song, it may be simpler to keep the prohibition as it is.


It's not PGs responsibility to make such determinations and demonstrations, though. They don't have to, they properly charge their users with that.

I just covered (sort of) the traditional Irish tune "Star of the County Down", assuming the justification that it is public domain.

Suppose, now, that Fever Ray decides to (unfairly!) accuse me of stealing their style for my version and goes on to accuse PG of being complicit in that infringement by allowing me to post a link to a Soundcloud recording of it.

Well... at that unlikely point, PG can just delete my post.

I'm saying, non-lawyer that I am, that I cannot see PG as opening itself to any legal liability by allowing public domain material, any more than they already are by allowing "original" material – which could, after all, always be plagiarized.

Last edited by Mark Hayes; 01/05/22 11:06 AM.