Whatever you want to call it -- I use the word idea -- a song is certainly not a tangible thing. (If you can hand me a song, I'll recant. No, not that, that's s

Whatever you want to call it -- I use the word idea -- a song is certainly not a tangible thing. (If you can hand me a song, I'll recant. No, not that, that's sheet music, not the song itself. No, not that CD, that's a copy of the recording of the song.) The constitution says -- I'm paraphrasing -- that 1) congress can't make laws that limit the freedom of expression (including my ability to use someone else's work to express myself), and 2) that the exception to that is for artists, who are granted a monopoly on their own work for a limited time, to encourage them to make more art. There is NO provision for "owning" a song. And the 1st amendment trumps any law that says you can. BTW I think you ought to look up what the straw-man argument, because I don't think it means what you think it does.