Send your songs to he US. You won't get any money from us just singing them as we don't as far as I've ever heard charge for the singing of them at venues nor do the venues have to pay a liscense of fee if they're performed, so if they're good enough, they'll get sung & they'll get spread about too..If I'm wrong please correct me, so I can stop singing.

Some folks may even want to buy recordings once they've been heard. We do have the same copyright laws but they don't extend to performences.
I believe that if we had the same system here you'd not find anyone singing songs if those songs sung would cost the performer or the venue a penny. I've never been asked to give a play list of a performence, at a venue, festival or session & the day that happens it would be a sad day for not only traditional songs but for those who write too. The whole concept of the "copyright" was to enhance the creativity & culture of the medium as well as protect the "property". This system seems to protect the property at a greater cost to the property while destroying all that it was originally supposed to foster, enhance & benifit the culture that it was born from.

Turning public parks into tourist traps & charging the visiting public for the upkeep of the property which has become a fenced in & caged zoo is not benifical to conserving the wild kingdom. The idea was not to turn the park into a "for profit" for those that didn't own the park in the first place, it was for all to enjoy but for those that want the park to flourish, grow, bloom & blossom & don't mind putting in their little bit of extra, those that want to write in their small contribuion & add it to the mix maybe there's a better way to replay/repay them for what they've written instead of giving away the farm because this system at present sucks for every involved except the Gestapo, who by the way creates nothing but a distaste & a dislike for evreyone & thing they touch.

Here in the US we had a department of Agriculture (notice the word culture) it started out with 600 employees, they managed around 6,000,000 farms, now that department has about 600,000 employees handling 60,000 farms. The non-produce-ing entity becomes a bit top heavy in it's need for survival while draning the life out of that which it was supposed to encourage & help to prosper & grow, it's killing it's own goose. It's become a cannibal.
I'd have to agree with Jim.

Barry