Originally Posted By: RnAM
Hi Peter and Janice,

Lovely cover of Gershwin's song.
Well done.

I love Gershwin. Rhapsody in Blue, an American in Paris, his songs, Porgy and Bess.
But most of all his concerto in F!

We didn't know it is allowed to cover his songs.
The information in the Netherlands is, that we are not allowed to cover American artists without permission unless they've been dead for a hundred years at least. In case of music originating from Europe this is 70 years.
This opens up some new possibilities for us!
Thanks for sharing.

Anne-Marie


In the US each January 1 is Public Domain Day and all songs from 96 years ago roll into the PD. So this year it was from 1926 and that is when this Gershwin song was written. Nothing he wrote after 1926 is yet in the PD. The US law changed several years ago as it was written so that only songs published to 1924 were PD. So they changed it to add another year each January 1. Next year in the US anything published in 1927 including songs, books, films, etc will enter the PD. I'm surprised that your law regarding the US is more strict than the US law ... which is one of the strictest if not the most in the world. Perhaps your source for the 100 year notion had not been updated when the US law changed.

And glad you liked it!

Janice & Bud

PS Here is an article from a US government site listing the song as PD
https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2022/01/the-lifecycle-of-copyright-1926-works-enter-the-public-domain/

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