Dan,it's called appropriation art, I believe, and in places like NYC and London people make money off of it. I think it started around the time of WWI when a gentleman entered a store-bought urinal in an art show and signed his name to it. He was in fact being insultingly ironic about mediocre talents stealing and trivializing the work of others, but the concept caught on. One lady I read about takes Ansel Adams photographs and signs her name to them, on the clear understanding that she didn't really take those pictures and is just making an artistic statement of some sort. People pay good money for the Ansel Adams photographs with her name on them.

Therefore, with this in mind, I am announcing that I am putting my name to all the works of Stan Rogers, Archie Fisher, Gordon Lightfoot, Leon Rosselson, Louis Armstrong, Steve Goodman, and Hank Williams. Once I am established, I think I might move into the Child ballads and Mozart. I am not claiming credit just for the songwriting, mind you, but for the actual performances when recordings exist. I shall become an ironic uberartist, and dress in black, and hang around in darkened bistros. I figure someone is bound to pay me money in appreciation of my statement.:)