To me, the issue isn’t the protection. If someone produces a popular song, that is intellectual property and should be paid for. The crazy part to me is how long Congress keeps the protection going. They keep extending and extending, primarily at the behest of Disney, to the point where it goes on forever.
A limit of protection of 20- 25 years maximum should suffice for any product whether intellectual or produced with ones hands IOW an invention. That would be more in line with the founders intent of these laws. It was to reward the original craftsman work but also too promote sciences. There should not be any more protection time allowed for someone who pens a song than for a company who pours hundreds of millions of dollars creating a new medication.