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Great assessment Phil!

And I don't have a problem with public domain songs being used, as long as they are clear that it's okay to do so so that everyone is aware of what they can and can't do. If no rules are supplied, I'd likely flag it since there is a cover category and it seems that since they don't allow a cover of a country song to be in the country category, why would they allow a cover of solo instrumental song to be there? From a "rules" point of view, it shouldn't matter that one is a public domain cover and the other is a copyright protected song. I know that Ourstage pays a large fee for the permission to allow their members to post cover songs (in case anyone wondered how that worked). And all songs will EVENTUALLY be public domain.. so the real question is Can you post things you haven't written in a category and compete there against people who are doing songs they wrote themselves? When it comes especially to the general public voting, they may vote on the quality of the song more than the quality of the performanc of that song and thus be more likely to vote for the song they recognize.

So, I wonder if Danny can answer that. I think the solution is to strategically place "Tradional" categories for cover/PD performances of stuff so there's two different categories. We do that in our own awards.

Brian