As I rather expected, the whole WMT matter was well chewed and spat out back in April while I was somewhere else. I do think that some of that excellent material should be attached to the song lyric in the DT, to counterbalance the bald statement of copyright ownership by Jimmy McPeake - and I still would like to know who this is, and how he can claim the copyright. Old Francie could at least claim 'new words by' in the usual manner, and get 7/12s or so under the British PRS system, but the habit of claiming the lot is around, and hallowed by record company policy. There was a great book about this published many years ago, a title like Big Music From Small Countries. In that I learned that in the Swedish copyright catalogue the Swahili song Malaika has 25 differnet composers listed, including all four members of Abba. Yet Peter Tsotsi, who at least remade it and made it a Hit Parade number in Nairobi in the early 60s, get zilch. It got into the folk repertoire through Pete Seeger, who heard it on Kenya radio, then recorded it and as you'd expect gave Peter Tsotsi his credit. Everyone else heard it from PS, and thought "He's recorded it, must be a trad folk song. Grab the copyright quick." (I think we've covered Malaika ground here before, but a while ago. There's many a good new gallop can be had over old ground.)