I think from my point of view that I want to keep banging on that what seemed like a long dead songwriter to the initial thread writer, is in fact a modern recently deceased party in copyright terms. I looked Cyril Tawney up - he died in 2005, and Graeme Miles in 2013! So that is hardly long time dead, or on any margins - when (C) is 70 years after death. Schubert died in 1828 - so I don't get where the comparison to Schubert comes in!    One day John Lennon's solo written songs will be out of copyright, (he died in 1980), but until then you still have to license them - modern composed/authored folk music is no different to any other genre unless just an arrangement of an already trad. work.