let us take Peter Kennedy, my personal experience was of a mild form of aggression from him. He seemed to think he owned the songs, and attempted to intimidate me.
the songs are not owned by anyone and if you put them in a book and sell the book you must expect people to sing and record them., it is morally unacceptable to the bootleg a track from an lp and try and sell it, because the song has been arranged he does not own the arrangement, itwas not his arrangement to sell, hpowever despite his curmudgeonly attitude , i forgive the poor old dote, because he collected the songs[ i understand he did not always treat his sources very well]
he did mange to recprd n boyle [ because he allowed him to have his rant about jungle music] which we must also be grateful for the songs belong to everyone