".....took place at a time when the ethics of collecting had not been much debated.
Kennedy was still selling BBC material and demanding copyright on the use of traditinal song which he claimed were his right up to his death a couple of years ago.
One of his stunts was to get old singers to sign the rights of not only the songs they gave Kennedy, but "anything they might remember in the future" - not worth the paper it was written on but country singers were not to know that.
Jim Carroll