Can the copyright owner opt out or claim infringement? (I looked it up, but couldn't make heads or tails of the legalese.)
If the copyright owner could opt out, then it would sound like a matter of the artist having sold their rights and not liking what the new owner's doing with them. But it doesn't sound like that's the case, and that's what's confusing.
Seems hard to believe that the corporations that own most copyrights would have created (or not prevented) a law that renders it worth less.