Editing Waltzing Matilda (section)

===Ownership===
On 12 January 1903, Paterson sold the rights to "Waltzing Matilda" and "some other pieces" to [[Angus & Robertson]] for "a fiver", five [[Australian pound]]s.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Walsh|first=Richard|year=2010|title=Traditional Australian Verse: The Essential Collection|page=153|publisher=ReadHowYouWant|isbn=978-1458720146}}</ref><ref name="auto3"/> A good shearer could easily make more than that in a week.<ref>O'Keefe, Dennis, Waltzing Matilda, The secret history of Australia's favourite song, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, London, Crows Nest NSW 2065 Australia, page 115</ref> Very soon after, tea trader [[James Inglis (politician)|James Inglis]], owner of Inglis and Co., purchased the musical rights to 'Waltzing Matilda' from Angus and Robertson for 5 guineas (5 pounds and 5 shillings).<ref>May, Sydney, The Story of 'Waltzing Matilda', 1955, W. R. 'Smith & Paterson PTY. LTD. Brisbane, page 41</ref> Inglis asked Marie Cowan, who was married to his accountant, to 'rejig' the song for use as an advertising [[jingle]] for the Billy Tea company, making it nationally famous.<ref name = SMH2002>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/19/1040174344781.html|title="Waltzing Matilda", courtesy of a tea-leaf near you|last=Safran|first=John|author-link=John Safran|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|date=20 December 2002}}</ref> Within two months of Paterson selling the copyright, musicians could buy a copy of Marie Cowan's altered lyrics set to a new arrangement of Christina's music for 9 pence.<ref>Rutledge, Martha. "[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/inglis-james-3834/text6087 Inglis, James (1845–1908)]", ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, 1972. Retrieved 30 August 2018</ref><ref>Pemberton, Greg. "[https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/waltzing-matildas-origins-and-chain-of-ownership-murky-20150813-giykvr.html Waltzing Matilda's origins and chain of ownership murky]." ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'', 14 August 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2018</ref><ref>The new song, Waltzing Matilda, Trove, The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate, Sat 14 March 1903 Page 2, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104758</ref>

Although by 1996, no [[copyright]] applied to the song in Australia and many other countries, the Australian Olympic organisers had to pay royalties to an American publisher, [[Carl Fischer Music]], following the song being played at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] held in Atlanta.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/25/technology/screen-grab-tale-of-the-jumbuck-and-the-billabong-interpreted.html|title=Screen Grab; Tale of the Jumbuck and the Billabong, Interpreted|first=Michael|last=Pollack|work=The New York Times|date=25 January 2001}}</ref> According to some reports, the song was copyrighted by Carl Fischer Music in 1941 as an original composition.<ref name=RCCopyright>{{cite web|url=http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/WM/Copyright.html|title=Copyright in "Waltzing Matilda"|work=Roger Clarke's "Waltzing Matilda" site|last=Clarke|first=Roger|year=2001|access-date=3 November 2008|quote=The copyright has presumably expired in Australia (and in almost every other country in the world), because in most Western countries copyright lasts for only 50 years after the death of the originator. Carl Fischer Musics' copyright hold is due to end in 2011. Banjo Paterson died in 1941 and Marie Cowan in 1919, so these copyrights ought to have expired in 1991 and 1969 respectively. In the United States other rules hold and copyright for the song still appears to exist. It is claimed by Carl Fischer New York Inc.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709001035/http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/WM/Copyright.html|archive-date=9 July 2008}}</ref> However, ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' reported that Carl Fischer Music had collected the royalties on behalf of Messrs Allan & Co, an Australian publisher that claimed to have bought the original copyright, though Allan's claim "remains unclear".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/waltzing-matildas-origins-and-chain-of-ownership-murky-20150813-giykvr.html|title=Waltzing Matilda's origins and chain of ownership murky|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|date=14 August 2015|author=Greg Pemberton|access-date=27 December 2016}}</ref> Arrangements such as those claimed by Richard D. Magoffin remain in copyright in America.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search%5FArg=Magoffin%2C%20Richard&Search%5FCode=NALL&CNT=25&PID=MIQy1jkBBh3x8MXb8aKAx3BAN&SEQ=20081103061245&SID=1|title=WebVoyage Record View 1|publisher=Cocatalog.loc.gov|access-date=1 July 2009}}</ref> <!-- Australia now follows America and Europe with a 70 instead of 50-year period from death for copyright except on all material that has fallen out of copyright before 2005! -->