Hi Folks, Thats quite an uproar. Good ol' dollar. Maybe we can use some of the other pressure that works well in this society: refusal to do business with about 700 members of the NMPA, and let them know about it. Would have to find out who they all are, and personally write, call (most of them will have 800 numbers) or email them with a firm statement that you and all your very musically active aquaintances will not have any business relations with any of them until they cease and desist from such harrassment. Now it's just like with Monsanto and the seeds they steal from natives all around the world, including our own Western culture heritage seeds, and want to monopolize them. Folksongs, or those that start out commercially and then become folksongs due to their popularity, are property of the people who sing them. How many popular songs can be traced back to that one or several anomymous author(s), one version or another? Just a hurried emotional thought. Good Luck.