The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126218   Message #2803691
Posted By: Anne Lister
05-Jan-10 - 02:51 AM
Thread Name: Free Rare Old Folk Album Downloads
Subject: RE: Free Rare Old Folk Album Downloads
In view of Q's post above it may be of interest to note that "Lizardson" is Japanese, so that could explain how this particular album ended up on his blog.

And yes, the copyright owners to an album may well not be the artists themselves - we had this very issue with THTM about the album "Burnt Feathers", recorded by Mary McLaughlin and me as Anonyma in 1986. The copyright owner is Paul Adams at Fellside. We don't have the right to put downloads from this album on our websites, free or otherwise, despite the songs themselves being our own (copyright) material. Should we be grateful to Lizardson and friends? Not really. Like Ian Anderson above, we'd rather choose what happens to our older recordings ourselves.