if Scholars have nothing better to do,than waste their time on this,it is a sad day,I just hope that taxpayers money wasnt used to fund this kind of scholarship.

There is a pretty obvious positive reason for wanting to investigate this - if Lloyd was telling the truth about where he got those disputed songs, there were a whole lot of songwriters out there we know nothing about and who did some really good stuff. So you'd want to track them down and find out what else they created, surely?

That simply MUST have been the primary motivation for people getting into this. And understandably people who went off searching with their hopes raised by Lloyd's work would be a bit pissed off at being sent on a wild goose chase and would want to make sure nobody else made the same mistake.