"If it can be copyrighted it isn't folk."

If that's be best you can come up with Jim, why have you spent the best part of your life engrossed in a subject you have no clue about?

Traditional songs are a part of folk. They are a small subset in fact. Some nice songs, some needing burying and not sustained for sustaining sake other than a reference library, but folk is what millions of people recognise it as.

And that includes folk songs written since copyright was invented

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