"Is there a danger that protections in place to protect the composers, publishers and performers of songs - are in danger of generally preventing us from being able to sing or of seriously limiting what we can sing and where?"

    It's not so much a danger as anexisting reality. It comes in to play every time the ASCAP or BMI bully a venue owner and cause said owner to stop having entertainment completely or to limit the performers' repetoires to original or public domain material.

Stephen Lee