The idea behind copyleft boils down to "I'll share with you if you share with me". And Creative Commons boils down to "I've got some copyrighted work; I choose

The idea behind copyleft boils down to "I'll share with you if you share with me". And Creative Commons boils down to "I've got some copyrighted work; I choose to share it under certain contitions". If ASCAP want to argue against these ideas, they've chosen a hard task for themselves. Probably all they will achieve is reinforcing the music industry's image of being out-of-touch dinosaurs living in the previous century.