yes and the collection agencies have rules no one understands or can get a handle on. how much, and where the public use a song is one thing - how the music industry works is quite another.

most of the folk music is broadcast on the net or on stations that don't pay prs charges.
it is what it has always been - a subversive and non establishment voice. how many folksongs are on the side of the bosses?

i think that is what is so bloody exasperating about traddies cosying up to the respectable academics, and the dreaded middle classes and their arts council grants, and arts centres, general arty fartininess- government sponsored this that and the other.

Bugger them, they're the creative kiss of death.