And this is an argument where there shouldn’t be intellectual property at all in these situations. Oral traditions and sharing music in a similar manner is the oldest tradition in human civilization, one of the things that makes us human.

Ok an exact recording of a pop song or rights to sell a song you didn’t write on a record… those might be considerable… but there needs to be a lot of room for music to be created and shared without whatever generational lock on ownership exists now.