Re: Requesting info. about KaTe songs

[pptjc@vaxk.bton.ac.uk (It's in the trees... It's coming...)]

In article <2pbber$6hi@atlas.cs.upei.ca>, fmcquarr@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Fiona McQuarrie) writes:
>If "Ran tan Waltz" is a folk tune, then why does Kate hold the copyright
>on it and why is she listed as the author?
>
>Any why do you assume that "Babooshka" involves an "aging" wife? Seems
>to me it;s about a husband who's lost interest in his wife, age not
>being an issue at all,
>
>Cheers, Fiona 

>> Peter Chow from Brighton (UK) adds:
>> I don't know about Ran Tan Waltz specifically but in other cases it
>> is possible for the music to be a traditional tune with no lyrics so
>> the author of the lyrics is alowed to say so and the copyright is on
>> the recording, not the song (as with classical recordings of long-
>> dead composers.).

>> I recon that's plausible but don't chew me out if you know better!