Our nautical group has done several recordings. When we are aware that the lyrics or musical arangement are the product of someone else, we make a good faith effort to contact them and pay them a standard royalty, 8¢ per CD or $80 US for a run of 1000 CD's. We do this whether the artist has copyrighted the work or not and are careful to print "used by permission of the artist in question" in the notes which accompany the CD.

For traditional songs, we merely credit the earliest source we can identify or whom we learned it from.

We hope that other individuals or groups that want to record our copyrighted songs will do the same for us.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble