[LINK] Pete Seeger and Public Domain reform

[Kim Holburn]

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/31097

> It went on, "Now Seeger is lending his name to the Campaign for  
> Public Domain Reform, an effort to create a system for part of the  
> royalties from folk tunes to reach the corners of the world where  
> the songs originated."
>
> He was 85 at the time, and he's still lending his name to the cause.  
> The item goes on to quote him as saying, "When a song is in the  
> public domain and you record it, it's standard practice in the music  
> industry to say 'adapted and arranged by' whoever sings it. Why let  
> the record company keep all the royalties? They didn't write the  
> song."
>
> So who did?
>
> "Seeger said he was once told by Joseph Shabalala of the South  
> African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo that when the word  
> 'traditional' is used, 'it means the money stays in New York'."
>


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