Time is key. You don’t have to be here right now to buy the recording. You can buy it tomorrow, you can buy it next year, or 20 years from now.

Or one can wait the 100+ years for it to fall into the public domain.

Alright, let’s accept that the market for the doctor’s services is not the same as the market for the artist’s services.

It is nonetheless correct to observe that what the doctor is complaining about is the abuse of perceived persisting or residual value. This concept is exactly what has been used to argue that copyright duration should be extended, and extended, and extended.
It is most certainly what motivated the songwriter who complained to Commerce Secretary Locke that the song he wrote was not becoming the “golden parachute” he had envisioned.
Further, the doctor’s complaint certainly is an “apples to apples” comparison when it comes to the real estate scoundrels who are trying to establish a hidden residual royalty on home sales to be paid to the original developer or home designer each and every time the home is sold – indefinitely.

The problem with songwriters, and artists in general who want their past work to be their “golden parachutes” is that they are using copyright law to allow themselves not to work as long or as hard as they would otherwise have done. Copyright should NOT motivate laziness. This is even more egregiously true in the case of the home designer who was already paid, and now seeks additional payment for the same work.

If you want to keep getting paid, then keep working. – – – Copyright was never meant to be your “Golden Parachute”

When copyright and patent laws are used to incentivize indolence, then they become a threat to our nation’s ability to compete in the world market, for I assure you that for every person who is enjoying the benefits of intellectual property “protection” here, there is someone working very hard in other parts of the world where there happens to be less government enforcement of these monopolies.