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Thread #44362   Message #652593
Posted By: GUEST
18-Feb-02 - 09:02 AM
Thread Name: Int'l Folklore Copyrights & Ethics
Subject: RE: Int'l Folklore Copyrights & Ethics
But if Martin Carthy can get "an undisclosed sum" off Paul Simon for Scarborough Fair, then why not the Bolivians? Isn't that a double standard? Carthy didn't write Scarborough Fair, and Simon added quite a bit to Carthy's version. So why the double standard?