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Thread #100838   Message #2027372
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
16-Apr-07 - 08:08 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Copyrights for Celticky Folky songs??
Subject: RE: Origins: Copyrights??
Yes, lots do. See the vast number of earlier 'copyright' threads where people ask the same question, though usually without mentioning what country they are in (on which the answer depends).

In the case of 'Air Falalalo', the tune is traditional but the words are by Hugh S Roberton, US copyright 1938. Roberton died in 1952, so copyright will not yet have lapsed.