Guest - It's a pretty badly written article. But I would like to see some subsidy and some effort devoted to preserving and presenting the English traditions.

Oombanjo - there are no rights in the sense of copyrights to trad folk, by definition for there is no known author, and if there were (s)he would ahve been ded for more than 70 years. There may be rights in an arrangement of music or words that are out of copyright, but that's not a problem - do a different arrangemetn.