...The songs you make will never be anybody's but yours - nothing can ever be done with them publicly without your permission....

We tried to address this issue with Aine's songbook and her rules.

If her rules could be accepted generally, then people could use one another's songs freely within that context. I know that many are not aware of these rules which is why I gave specific permission in this thread for EFDSS to use any of my work.

Whilst there may have been nothing intentionally dishonest that Noreen wrote, the link that she posted was not honest. I know it is a small issue of semantics, but its association with a group that sticks closely to its own rather narrow definition of folk, then you would expect it to be a little more careful in its choice of words.