The copyright was I'm sure demanded by the Producers and Publishing Companies. Like Wyatt in the urban rumor, he just rolled with it, and has never "come clean". Most of the problem I have is with, I think, the "arr. by" claims. Everybody does that, to "copyright their particular "treatment" of any original. But he begged borrowed or stole from many extremely poor and forgotten Black Artists, say the Mississippi Sheikhs (sp) et al. and very seldom lets out any idea of connection to his work. If you google "Blood In My Eyes" you will get an idea. Not a word in album notes nor Biographies etc.. He don't care. I imagine he thinks he has made up for it by marrying his Black Back Up Singer and having a daughter by her, Something that He doesn't address in Public. A.P. Carter did the same thing, traveling around and collecting and mixing and matching and rearranging old 'favorites' from the Hill peoples of Appalachia. But Dylan is trying to appear as though these works just popped out of his head like Athena and Zeus. When people give him acclaim ( or awards )for his work he has never said "Aw shucks, tweren't nuthin' jus' sumthin' I got from ol' "Black Artists Name Here" ". Indeed he has self esteem issues, because if he had ever Publicly given any artist other than Woody Guthrie ( the Original Gypsy Rover ) any credit either overt or indirect ly, people would have had even Greater respect for his work. But no. He will not allow the lime and/or spot light to be dimmed by one lumen, lest he suffer the pangs and sorrow of not being thought the Genius that he actually is. Einstein disguised as Robin Hood.