Talk:Green Bushes

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[edit] Copyright Dispute

I know jack all about this sort of thing, and it was me that put in the reference earlier because... wikipedia likes references... I dunno... but anyways. This is a folk song and I was under the impression that folk songs were public domain? And since the oldest known copy is from c. 1813-1838 (according to that reference), I thought songs etc older than 50 or 100 years were automatically public domain? Again, I could be wrong.

And I do totally understand that the lyrics shouldn't be on the article anyway, by the wiki rules and stuff, but... I'm just not sure if they're copyright is all. How do you copyright a folk song that's 200 years old? Forgive me my ignorance of WP policies but if the lyrics have been removed why is the page still violating copyright, when none of the actual text of the article occurs on the site?

Anyways like I said I hardly know anything about this but that's my £0.02! thefunkygibson^T¤C 17:19, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

All of your arguments are valid. I have restored the article as not being a copyvio. This song is old enough to be in the public domain. At at the very least, the intro is clearly not a vio, even if the lyrics were removed for other reasons.-Andrew c ^[talk] 21:19, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!! thefunkygibson^T¤C 21:59, 29 August 2007 (UTC)