PRS Member (would you mind if I called you P? – PRS Member is such a tooth-loosener, and I was always rather fond of Q, James Bond's armourer – was he a relative?)
I concede your point; you are referring to songs where the composer is known, which means of coure at long last we may be getting somewhere with this somewhat convoluted argument.
You do realise that you've just presented the perfect argument for keeping traditional and newly-composed songs seperated!
One of the characteristics of traditional songs is that the authors are not known, ("traditional – of obscure or unknown origin") therefore, how can we possibly describe newly-composed songs, or songs where the authors are known as 'traditional'?
Jim Carroll
PS I Googled PRS Member and didn't find your web-site.