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Not entirely. For example many forms of music are subject to either compulsory or statutory licensing. Also, the United States government has long held that it does not need to comply with patent law for its own internal use (e.g DoD can ignore your patents).

If you write/compose a song, and/or record a song for the public in the United States you do not have complete control over it anymore.

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This is true, of course. I did not mean to claim that creators' rights to control subsequent copying are comprehensive and unlimited. They are not. But they are very robust.