Originally Posted By: David Snyder


Yeah, what Herb said.

Way too many people taking liberties with the "we all own this" mentality. I don't like it.

If you are a writer it is not a "we all own this" scenario--the writer owns it, at least well past the point when they are dead, as Herb pointed out.


And this is, indeed, the song WRITERS forum. Not the song RE-DOERS forum. There should be a separate forum for all these covers of public domain songs. I know I can scroll past, so don't tell me that, but I don't care about redos of old music. I want to hear YOUR original ideas.