Bob Dylan’s Reagan Movie Song ‘Don’t Fence Me In’ is Finally on YouTube

The producers of the movie Reagan have released a much-requested Bob Dylan cover that was included in the film after months of copyright strikes against fans posting the song while watching the film.

In an exclusive reveal to Newsweek, Mark Joseph, producer of Reagan through his company Rawhide Pictures, announced Dylan’s cover of the Cole Porter song “Don’t Fence Me In,” which was included for the end title credits of the biopic is now available on YouTube.

Dylan fans have wanted to share the song since the film’s release, recording it and posting it online. Rawhide had struck down fan postings, but have now released the song on YouTube, though they have not made it clear when the song might be available on Spotify.

A Rawhide Pictures spokesperson told Newsweek in an email response that the company had struck down apparent bootleg fan versions due to quality concerns, stressing that they “wanted to make a proper recording available.”

Reagan received largely negative reviews from critics but outperformed box office expectations during its opening weekend. The film, loosely based on Paul Kengor’s 2006 book The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, depicts the life of the former president, with Dennis Quaid in the starring role.

Audiences responded far more favorably to the movie, handing the movie a 98 percent audience rating based on over 5,000 reviews in comparison to the 18 percent critic rating based on 68 reviews.

Nobel laureate Dylan’s cover of “Don’t Fence Me In” was a welcome addition to a star-studded soundtrack that included a cover of the 1930s song “Stormy Weather,” performed by Gene Simmons of KISS, and country music star Clint Black covered John Denver’s “Country Roads,” according to Spin.com.

Quaid said he was “honored” to include Dylan’s song, revealing that the producers had given him “the freedom to do any song he wanted to do, whether an original or a cover, and he chose...