Actually I do think music is different. Call me crazy but I think musicians should get paid to perform not to write one jingle and be set for the life. The purpose of copyright is to motivate to create, not to do the opposite.
Also, the cost of music is still pretty high. I'm not familiar with the examples you gave since I really don't listen to music -- you're officially old when you stop looking for new music to listen to.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Actually I do think music is different. Call me crazy but I think musicians should get paid to perform not to write one jingle and be set for the life. The purpose of copyright is to motivate to create, not to do the opposite.
Also, the cost of music is still pretty high. I'm not familiar with the examples you gave since I really don't listen to music -- you're officially old when you stop looking for new music to listen to.