"The drop in the popularity offolksongs is because the businessmode of themusic industry is outdated, notbecause of the music itself," folksinger songKeoncesaid.
The dispute centred on how much U.S. company Ludlow Music should earn in revenues for allowing Williams and his record company to borrow from late U.S. folksinger Woody Guthrie's 1961 song "I am the Way, " whose copyright it owns.