Captain Birdseye,

Re your rhetorical question:
"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."

This approach to the problem under discussion has a name. It is called "blame the victim."

Russ (Permanent and sometimes Impertinent GUEST)