GSS:
Sorry to interrupt the point you have already made pretty succinctly Cap'n, but while you dominate this thread with your quabble over what was done to you, Kennedy slips out the back door - again.
I agree entirely with Ron Olesko "This is a fascinating, and important discussion" which it would be a great shame to waste on a (as you have made clear, justified) personal grievence.
A story from Irish collector and broadcaster, the late Cairán MacMathúna, which I believe illustrates the incredible generosity of the people who gave us our raw material to work with.
He was recording an old fiddle player in Kerry, a poor small farmer with a few acres and a handful of cattle.
At the end of the session Ciarán said; "There is the matter of a small recording fee".
The old man thought for few seconds, then said; "I have no money in the house at present, but I'm taking a bullock to the market tomorrow; will it be all right if I pay you then?"
Jim Carroll