Greg,

Then this all goes back to my original reason for the post. And I hate to continue to use Tommy Makem as the whipping boy here but that is the example I forst stated. In the case of "Jock 'O'Hazeldean" and the other songs mentioned directly in my post, Tommy Makem is identified as the author of the song. NOT as the author of the arrangement to a song that is already in Public Domain. And that is my entire contention.

If I, an an unknowing musician, record "Jock'O'Hazeldean" with my own arrangement and license as stated with Tommy as the author and credit him as such on the CD, does he or the label recieve the $80.00 from the license fee?

Isn't there an incumbency on someones part to correctly identify a song as Trad/Public Domain? Or is this entirely a Buyer Beware situation?

Don