Kevin's post back there makes for sobering reading. This is the plunder we're talking about. It now resides in ossuaries, well out of reach of the very people it was filched off in the first place, accessible only to a select few for an academic research entirely removed from the cultural jouissance that gave rise to the songs in the first place.

Howard - the only way musicians can have absolute control over their work is to make very sure that no one else gets to hear it - that they never record it, never publish it, and never release it. Least ways then they will be certain that people won't be ripping them off simply by showing an interest in it.