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"WE SHALL OVERCOME" IS FREE!
January 26, 2018 / New York City
It is with great joy and humility that the We Shall Overcome Foundation can declare the following:
On January 28, 2018, after 58 years of illegitimate control and exploitation, 9-years of painstaking research and an epic two-year multi-million dollar legal battle, the iconic protest anthem, We Shall Overcome has at long last been set free and restored to the public domain.
Born of the African-American Church from the blood, sweat and tears of a suffering and oppressed people, this sacred anthem of freedom, resistance, and protest has been returned to a world in desperate need of its divine power.
The WE SHALL OVERCOME FOUNDATION gives all glory to God for this victory.
For those of you who have supported this cause, we thank you and are eternally grateful. Without ALL of you, none of this would have been possible. We would also like to thank those in the global press and digital news community for your extraordinary efforts in documenting this historic journey with the highest standards of ethics and integrity.
"This is the Lord's doing: it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" Psalm 118:23-24
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The two sides in a legal dispute over whether the song "We Shall Overcome" was subject to copyright protection reached a settlement on Friday that put the civil rights anthem in the public domain, lawyers involved in the case said.
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Sing it loud. Be solemn about the struggles and indignities of life. But also sing it proud upon a hopeful future. On Friday, a song publisher backed down on the claim that "We Shall Overcome" is under copyright.
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The two sides in a legal dispute over whether the song We Shall Overcome was subject to copyright protection reached a settlement on Friday that put the civil rights anthem in the public domain, lawyers involved in the case said.
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The civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" is now in the public domain. The music publishers that copyrighted the song in the 1960s settled the lawsuit on Friday. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: In a few minutes, we'll meet one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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CLOSE In 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. came to Cincinnati to speak at a banquet for friend and fellow civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth. Hotels were filled, so Shuttlesworth, the pastor of Revelation Baptist Church in the West End, turned to his congregation's music minister for help.
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Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome is now in the public domain as a result of copyright protection settlement. Song publisher Ludlow Music on Friday agreed that the melody and lyrics of the song are "hereafter dedicated to the public domain."
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28 gen 2018 - Si è chiusa extragiudizialmente la causa tra la società di edizioni Ludlow Music e la We Shall Overcome Foundation circa il copyright di "We Shall Overcome", traditional americano reso celebre dall'interpretazione di Joan Baez nella versione...
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For decades, activists have tried to get Louise Shropshire the credit she deserves for the famous civil rights song popularized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "We Shall Overcome," which has long been said to be based on a hymn that she wrote.
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The civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" has been declared a part of public domain.
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Sing it loud. Be solemn about the struggles and indignities of life. But also sing it proud upon a hopeful future. On Friday, a song publisher backed down on the claim that "We Shall Overcome" is under copyright.
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Two years ago, the We Shall Overcome Foundation filed a lawsuit against Ludlow Music and the Richmond Organization to free the song 'We Shall Overcome.' According to the organization, the song actually came from a 19th-century spiritual. Pete Seeger's versions, copyrighted in 1960 and 1963, only had minor alterations to lyrics registered in the public domain.
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Hymn writer Louise Shropshire is finally getting recognized for her song, which became the most recognized Civil Rights anthem in history.
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In September 2017, the lawsuit between music publishers The Richmond Organisation-Ludlow Music Inc (TRO-Ludlow) and the We Shall Overcome Foundation (WSOF) and Butler Films LLC saw US District Judge Denise Cote's ruling that placed the first and fifth verse of the time-honoured iconic protest song We Shall Overcome firmly in the publicdomain.
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The same legal team that helped get the song "Happy Birthday" officially cleared into the public domain has done it again with the song "We Shall Overcome." As we wrote about, the same team filed a similar lawsuit against The...
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Civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" was placed in the public domain recently, and its original author has been placed in the spotlight, WSB-TV reports. Louise Shropshire, a music minister and entrepreneur, has now been given credit for creating the iconic song, which was made famous by mid-century folk singers like Pete Seeger and Joan Baez.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The lyrics and melody of "We Shall Overcome" are now part of the public domain, following the settlement of a copyright lawsuit over the civil rights anthem long associated with the late folk singer Pete Seeger.
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Last Friday, a federal judge in Manhattan ordered that the first and most famous verse of the Civil Rights era anthem "We Shall Overcome" belongs in the public domain. Plaintiffs in the case had asked the judge to negate a half-century-old copyright by four songwriters, including the late Pete Seeger.
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smithsonian.com Part of the classic Civil Rights song "We Shall Overcome" has now entered the public domain after a U.S. judge struck down its copyright protections last Friday , reports Rick Karr for NPR. "I couldn't be more humbled or thrilled to share the news that [...]
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Last year, the song's copyright was challenged by the makers of a documentary on the song's history and by the makers the 2013 film "Lee Daniels' The Butler," who wanted to use part of the song in the movie.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge handed challengers to copyrights for the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" a victory on Friday, ruling that the lyrics and melody of the song's first verse do not qualify for copyright protection. U.S.
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A federal judge ruled (PDF) on Friday that the most famous verse of the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" is not copyrighted. The ruling is a decisive, but still incomplete win for the two plaintiffs.
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"We Shall Overcome" Verse Ruled Public Domain. Read more about this and other GRAMMYs news at GRAMMY.com.
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A New York state judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit challenging the copyright of civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" can move forward, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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We shall overcome, We shall overcome, We shall overcome, some day. Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We shall overcome, some day. *Those stirring words from the first verse of the iconic song " We Shall Overcome" shaped the Civil Rights Movement and became the battle cry for African-Americans throughout the late 1950s, 1960s, and beyond.
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LEE DANIELS RECEIVES THE "WE SHALL OVERCOME FOUNDATION OSCAR MICHEAUX FREEDOM AWARD" AT 2013 CINCINNATI TRIBUTE TO "WE SHALL OVERCOME" AUTHOR, LOUISE SHROPSHIRE
Cincinnati, Ohio, -September 28, 2013. At an historic cultural gathering of influential religious, academic and civic leaders and activists, Lee Daniels, the Oscar-nominated director of "Precious" and the critically acclaimed film, "Lee Daniels' The Butler", was awarded the ‘We Shall Overcome Foundation 'Oscar Micheaux Freedom Award’ at the first annual, ‘We Shall Overcome-An Evening of Hope’ awards ceremony. Mr. Daniels was presented the award by Civil Rights Hall of Fame Inductee, Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr., who himself was subject to violence of the African American Civil Rights movement, such as was vividly depicted in Daniels' award winning film, "Lee Daniels' The Butler".
What started out as a deeply moving tribute to Mr. Daniels and his recent directorial work on ‘Lee Daniels The Butler’ by Rev. Moss, evolved into a powerful "I Saw ‘the Butler’" sermon, during which Rev. Moss powerfully articulated his personal connection to the film's principal character, Cecil Gaines; depicted by actor, Forrest Whitaker. Rev. Moss also remarked on the "astonishing" historical accuracy portrayed in Daniels’ film. During his acceptance speech, Lee Daniels wept tenderly and then, spoke humbly - not of himself, but of the "True Heroes" of the American Civil Rights Movement. He then pointed out and thanked Mrs. Betty Daniels Rosemond, - a presenter at the ceremony and was herself a Freedom Rider, based out of the Louisiana chapter of the Congress of Racial Equalituy (C.O. R. E.) Earlier in the program, Mrs. Rosemond had presented the We Shall Overcome Foundation "Harriet Tubman Activism Award" to Simone Sheffield; Co=producer of , "Precious" and "Lee Daniels' The Butler",
In one of the highlights of the evening, immediately following Lee Daniel’s acceptance speech, Civil Rights Hall of Fame Inductee, Rev, Dr. Damon Lynch Jr. took to the stage and issued an "altar call" whereby he asked all ministers in the audience to come forward. Approximately 35 men and women of faith then made their way to the stage and, led by the President of the Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Rev. Dr. Clarence "C.W." Newsome, formed a circle around Lee Daniels, laid hands on him and, along with hundreds in the audience, prayed for him and his work as a filmmaker. It was truly an exceptional and historic night in Cincinnati, Ohio. - Like no other before it but God permitting, many to follow.
The 'We Shall Overcome~ An Evening of Hope: The Life and Legacy of Louise Shropshire' gala was an award ceremony and tribute to Louise Shropshire - the newly discovered "missing-link" author of the iconic freedom song, "We Shall Overcome".
The evening concluded with representatives from the city of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Public Schools, the University of Cincinnati and the Ohio State House of Representatives, all of which presented historic resolutions and declarations affirming Louise Shropshire's original authorship of "We Shall Overcome"; the song the US Library of Congress has called; "The Most Powerful Song of the 20th Century".
Founded by Isaias Gamboa -the We Shall Overcome Foundation is a faith-based, not-for-profit organization, dedicated to the spiritual, social, educational, political and economic survival of the poor, opressed, abused, ignorant and marginalized throughout the world.
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CITY OF CINCINNATI RECOGNIZES LOUISE SHROPSHIRE AS AUTHOR OF "WE SHALL OVERCOME"
In an historic City Council resolution,
the City of Cincinnati, Ohio has unanimously
affirmed Louise Shropshire as the true "Original Author"
of the powerful freedom song, We Shall Overcome.
The resolution was approved on September 11, 2013
by all nine city council members and signed by the
mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio; Mark Mallory.
For more than half a century prior to the release of the book, We Shall OVercome: Sacred Song on the Devil's Tongue" by Isaias Gamboa, the founder of WE SHALL OVERCOME FOUNDATION, the "original"
author of We Shall Overcome had been listed as "unknown".
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