Gustave Delory once acquired the copyright of his lyrics through the songwriter G B Clement having bought it from Pottier's widow. As Eugène Pottier died in 1887, his original French lyrics are in the public domain.
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Pierre De Geyter's music is also in the public domain in countries and areas whose copyright durations are authors' lifetime plus 75 years or less. However, as the Internationale music was published before 1 July 1909 outside the United States of America, it is in the public domain in the USA. Le Chant du Monde, the corporation administering the authors' rights, asked Pierre Merejkowsky, the film director and an actor of Insurrection / résurrection, to pay €1,000 for whistling the song for seven seconds. The duration of copyright in France is 70 years following the end of the year when the author died, plus (for musical works) 6 years and 152 days to compensate for World War I, and 8 years and 120 days to compensate for World War II respectively. His music of the Internationale is copyrighted in France until October 2017.
Pierre De Geyter lost the first copyright case in 1914, but after his brother committed suicide and left a note explaining the fraud, Pierre was declared the copyright owner by a court of appeal in 1922. In 1904, Pierre's brother Adolphe was induced by the Lille mayor Gustave Delory to claim copyright, so that the income of the song would continue to go to Delory's French Socialist Party. In an unsuccessful attempt to save Pierre De Geyter's job as a woodcarver, the 6,000 leaflets printed by Lille printer Bolboduc only mentioned the French version of his family name (Degeyter).
His melody was first publicly performed in July 1888 and became widely used soon after. Pierre De Geyter (1848–1932) set the poem to music in 1888. The original French words were written in June 1871 by Eugène Pottier (1816–1887, previously a member of the Paris Commune) and were originally intended to be sung to the tune of La Marseillaise. The Internationale is sung not only by communists but also (in many countries) by socialists or social democrats, as well as anarchists.įrom 1922 to 1944, The Internationale was the de facto national anthem of the Soviet Union. It is sung traditionally with the hand raised in a clenched fist salute.
(Freely translated: "This is the final struggle/ Let us group together and tomorrow/ The Internationale/ Will be the human race.") The Internationale has been translated into many of the world's languages. Its original French refrain is C'est la lutte finale/ Groupons-nous et demain/ L'Internationale/ Sera le genre humain. The Internationale became the anthem of international socialism. The Internationale (L'Internationale in French) is a famous socialist, communist, social-democratic and anarchist anthem and one of the most widely recognized songs in the world.
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