The habit of copyrighting trad tunes and songs when you record them should not be taken as meaning you'retrying to claim any special rightson the tune(in the sense of stopping otherpeople using them). We just do it to try toget some money into our pockets that would otherwise go to nobody( or possibly to other people like record companies, PPL coffers etc).If you spend half your life collecting and researching traditional music (with no grants available to help), there is no harm in trying to get a few pence back when you record them (and pence is what it tends to be!).Don't hold it against any one if you see "Soldiers Joy"Tradarranged Joe Bloggs copyright 2002. They're just trying to raise some beer money.