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Thread #99963 Message #2003877
Posted By: GUEST,Somone else
22-Mar-07 - 06:34 AM
Thread Name: It isn't 'Folk', but what is it we do?
Subject: RE: It isn't 'Folk', but what is it we do?
The legal definition is that the writer has been dead for 70 years. PRS make no distinction between Trad, Anon, and Publicly Owned - they all mean the same thing.
So if someone credits a song - or tune (it's even more commonplace with tunes) - as Trad that may be taken to mean Anon / Publicly owned. Which it may not, in fact, be.