Barbara,

I'm not my folk club's newletter editor. If I were, I THINK I would clear all copyrights before printing copyrighted music or words in the newsletter. As I vaguely recall from the last time I looked at Title 17 (but remember, I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, nothing in this post establishes a lawyer-client relationship, etc. etc.) there is a general fair-use exception in 17 U.S.C. #107, and some very limited non-profit public performance exceptions in 17 U.S.C. #110, but I don't recall any non-profit publication exemption, nor does publication in a club newletter currently strike me as a fair use. Of course,maybe I'd be singing a different tune if I actually had to deal with the problems of editorship.

Copyright clearance should be fairly easy if the composer and lyricist are both club members. If one or the other or both aren't, it gets a bit harder. If copyright clearance got to be too much trouble, I suppose I'd either drop music from the newsletter, or print lots of PD while encouraging in-house (in-club?) songwriting.