>  [ Could we "bend the rules" a little bit?  A friendly lawyer simply
>  [ said, "I wouldn't take the chance, Robbie.  Even if a charge of
>  [ infringement isn't upheld by the court, you can't afford lawyers
>  [ like me to defend you in a lawsuit brought by a copyright owner."
>  [ -- Robbie

I'm afraid that Robbie is correct.  I read a book about the Edmund
Fitzgerald, a Great Lakes freighter whose sinking was immortalized in 
a popular song.  The author noted in the preface that he had wanted 
to put the lyrics of the song in his book, but that there had been no
way to prevail upon the copyright owners to grant permission.  So the
lyrics weren't in that book.  Of course you can get the lyrics to just
about any song through a Google search.  As hard and as litigious as
the music industry tries to be, they're always two jumps behind their
various nemeses nemesises nemisae.

Mark Kinsler

 [   "The captain wired in he had water comin' in
 [    and the good ship and crew was in peril"
 [
 [ From "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", words and music by
 [ Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot, copyright 1976 by Moose Music
 [ Ltd.  A blog site remarks, "Lightfoot's paeon is probably the last
 [ great sea shanty to make its rounds in our sheltered, lubberly life."
 [
 [ -- Robbie