TO GUEST RUSS , I am asking for the matter of    alleged defrauding of royalties to be clarified, that way people can make their own judgements.
Does it occur to anyone that the people that these songs were collected from, might through their own lack of understanding have an exaggerated idea of their financial worth, and no understanding of Peter Kennedys travelling expenses, and [possibly ]unfairly felt resentment.the people who peter kennedy collected songs from did not own them[ morally ]any more than the person they learnt them from.
      All traditional songs were written by someone at some point. the fact that the original author or broadsheet writer no longer had them under copyright does not mean that they were the singers property[ because they were not the singers creative work]unlike self penned material.they were no more that persons property than they are mine.
the difference is that if i choose to arrange a song [i can copyright my arrangements] but these songs were
unaccompanied and therefore unarranged. in my opinion part of the problem here is that these source singers did not understand that they did not own the song, because it was not their creative work, but the creative work of a broad sheet seller.