Conventional copyright that delineates the boundaries of the work reflects the work (eg. the music in this case) as a hot medium. Brad’s view that music is a co-creation that doesn’t exist without the audience completing the experience is (by definition) a cool medium. The collaborative construction in this case cannot be accommodated very well by conventional copyright.

But since, in a UCaPP* world, we move to collaborative construction of just about everything, copyright can be legitimately, in media theory terms, be considered as obsolescent. It has nothing to do with morality, rights, ethics, compensation, or any of that industrial age crap. Instead, it has everything to do with the epochal change in which we are now participating.

*UCaPP = Ubiquitously Connected and Pervasively Proximate.