I have a collection of old songs that I have been doing some research
on, I'm thinking are in the pd, that I would like to use, but while I was researching trying to find information on some of these songs, I happened to come upon someone else's collection with a song similar to one I have and where it says, Author unknown. Variant of a British broadside ballad, Collected by Edward Leach and published as Susan Strayed The Briny Beach, #21 in Folk Ballads And Songs Of The Lower Coast, by The National Museum of Canada (1965) Crown Copyrights Reserved.
Can anybody tell me what "Crown Copyrights Reserved" means and if I still have a right to use the song I already have in my collection.
Thanks in advance.