You can copyright your recording of a PD song, but you don't get to copyright the song itself (melody/lyrics) as your own. Now if you write a new melody to the original lyrics, you can claim copyright on the new melody, but not the lyrics. Likewise, if you write new lyrics to the original melody, you can claim the lyrics, but not the melody. But by definition, if they want, everyone can legally post their own rendition of a PD song (as long as it truly is PD - that's on the originator to research). I've posted PD on the forum, clearly indicated as such, and have received no pushback from PGMusic.


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