[javajosh]

>a country that prevents its citizens from recording a song...

False analogy. No-one claims copy-write on the physical world. Well, not except the CCP.

[varajelle]

Songs are being played in the physical world.

I think the analogy is perfectly valid anyway. You're just trying to find an excuse to compensate a dissonance. But all rules are arbitrary.

[8note]

That's not true. Building designs have copyrights as do skylines.

Eg the lights on that tower in france

[Proven]

Unrelated.

Building designs are man-made and in any case this is about taking photographs and not replicating man-made designs.

[pmontra]

Most of the things we care about on a map are man made too. Roads, tracks, bridges, shops, street addresses. I rarely care about where a mountaintop or a river are. I care for the track to get there or the bridge to cross to the other bank or the road to a restaurant.