I don't have a problem with copyright holders getting paid long after the work. Unlike patents, where I do have a problem, copyright doesn't prevent independent

I don't have a problem with copyright holders getting paid long after the work. Unlike patents, where I do have a problem, copyright doesn't prevent independent discovery. If you write a song, I think it's fair that you have creative and monetary control over that song for a fairly long period of time (though far shorter than the current legal frameworks provide for). However, these type of common studio tricks look to my eye to have very little to do with copyright. They seem to be cases of just good old fashioned criminal and civil fraud. It's just that the fraud wouldn't work without copyright law behind the scenes.