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I'm not sure that follows. Laws are rarely based on platonic principles that can be extrapolated from the smallest topic to the biggest with complete logical consistency.

In this case, the protections afforded by IP law for music and right of publicity for people are pretty different, and it would be a mistake to assume perfect coherence between the two. That a feature, not a bug.




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