Or if they have issues with the very nature of copyright, is there really a problem?
How much do I have to change in my own work to make a new claim of copyright?
The first thing to do is simply make a notice of copyright on your work.
The song is critical of copyright and the record industry.
You own a copy, and can use it within the terms of copyright.
Instead, they most likely fall within the scope of copyright.
Congress is free to extend at will the term of copyright.
Most recently, in 1998, Congress added twenty years to the term of copyright.
So it is popular with the people who don't have awareness of copyright.
This made the total duration of copyright for these works 95 years.