I see that the estimable @ColinH has made it to the letters page of the London Review of Books:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n18/letters
“The story is told in Colin Harper’s excellent biography of Jansch, Dazzling Stranger (2006). Harper quotes Nat Joseph, who founded Transatlantic: ‘Almost any “traditional” song that somebody does an arrangement of, somebody will have done something vaguely similar before. The difficulty appears to be one of really establishing, among hundreds of arrangers, who it was that made the arrangement “original”.’ “
Alias says
Thanks for pointing this out. Usually the letters in the LRB make me embarrassed to have a subscription.