Your rather eccentric view of two stone columns, one with yourself and your collection, and the other with PRS do you no favours.

Most of your heroes used PRS to protect their commercial interest. Most folk singers at club level sing songs, regardless of the status of them. Your collecting and cataloguing is an achievement, one nobody here underestimates, but translating that into ownership of words invites ridicule Jim, it really does.

In the meantime, folk music is enjoying a huge revival. I doubt a single performer under the age of 50 has heard of, nor would find relevant, any piece of paper written in 1954, except in the historical journey of the genre sense. I hadn't heard of it except in passing myself till I found Mudcat. Yet by then, I had been "involved" for thirty odd years!

I'm a snogwriter by the way. Lots of my songs involve "sporting and playing" or frustration at not doing so, as it were... I can do armpit farts too.