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Charles Louis Seeger, Jr. was an American musicologist, composer, teacher, and folklorist. He was the father of the American folk singers Pete Seeger , Peggy Seeger , and Mike Seeger ; and brother of the World War I poet Alan Seeger . Wikipedia  

✵ 14. December 1886 – 7. February 1979
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Charles Seeger Quotes

“Perhaps the Russians have done the right thing, after all, in abolishing copyright. It is well known that conscious and unconscious appropriation, borrowing, adapting, plagiarizing, and plain stealing are variously, and always have been, part and parcel of the process of artistic creation. The attempt to make sense out of copyright reaches its limit in folk song. For here is the illustration par excellence of the law of Plagiarism. The folk song is, by definition and, as far as we can tell, by reality, entirely a product of plagiarism.”

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