If I want to sing songs like " My old man said follow the van" or " If you were the only girl in the world" at the pub, instead of feeding the jukebox with pound coins, who would I have to pay for the privilege?
Mike
The thug in the corner who does not like your singing:-)
Both are more than 100 years old, so out of copyright. The pub landlord might have a view on whether or not you were welcome to sing in the pub though.
It's the thug in the corner wot's making me do it. It's his pound coins as were going in the jukebox.
That's the info I was looking for Colin, thanks.
That'll be me performing in the underpass then :-(
Yes some pubs have an open mike night and even a kareoke night, so learrn I will survive and my way and you are set. Brian
Yeah but I'll be well over a hundred years old before they are.
"In the UK, copyright in the musical work and the literary work (if relevant) will last for the life of the creator, plus 70 years. If the work was created jointly, it will last for 70 years after the death of the last surviving creator."
100 years might, or might not be old enough. Further, if the arrangement is newer...
Those will be out of copyright, so you won't have to pay royalties.
Copyright exists until 75 years after the death of the author/composer, not the absolute age of the song.
Is there a reasonably easy way to check out such things?
Slightly trickier than it first seemed then.
Not a problem for 'My old man said follow the van died'. The composer of 'If you were the only girl in the world' died in 1952, although, so far as I can find, nobody still claims the copyright to the 1916 version. Later arrangements do have copyright holders listed.
Obviously, use the original arrangement.
Thanks for that.
Where did you get 75 from? Everywhere I looked had 70.
Sorry? Oh I almost forgot Come on Eileen and La Isla Bonita. Brian
In reality though, there is not an issue as the backing track used seems to be all part of the service these days. If you wanted to release it though and make dosh that way, then I'd imagine you would need to be more careful, legally. Its interesting to note that New Zealand seems to have verry liberal copyright laws. Brian
You're clearly a man who's been around a bit, and moved in artiste-ic circles.
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