Very good question paddymac. I think, and it's an opinion and not a fact, that Mudcat «owns» materials posted here; every message still available here, and I wonder if it would be very different if printed. Of course, it would be for sale, but ideally, to help Mudcat raising fund. I don't know, but in a book, you can reprint a letter you received, even to insult the author, and that's legal. And I think that Catters will assume that their posts are in the public domain...

Amos tells it better than me: yes it would be a classic. I didn't eslewhere a place that *anybody* can talk deeply about folk music. Takes it as a field recording.

SP