No, a copy of a recording is not the person. Can you punch the recording in the face? nope? well it's not the same. Especially not if me or my property incurred time and energy to produce the copy.

The only protection I think is valid and enforceable, and is completely consistent with most of the systems of jurisprudence up until the 20th century, and even embedded in some of the old British Acts, especially the 'Statute of Monopolies 1624' specifically attempted to outlaw what grew into the patent system we see to day, and as an offshoot of it, copyright law, - the only valid claim is that you have proof you put something into the public domain first, and therefore neither can the content be patented, nor copyrighted.

If you see some great public domain work, and you riff off it, maybe you cut and paste, use a lot of it wholesale, but you didn't copy the whole thing, first of all, it will take no time for a bot like Cheetah to find what you derived from, but since you made the effort to riff on it, you have not done anything essentially wrong. If you released the content verbatim, and claimed it was your work, you have committed an act of fraud. Because it is not your work.

But saying that what I have already allowed other people to copy, a prerequisite of distribution, such as posting it here, to claim it is still my property, is a violation of the other person's property and implicitly a reneging on my part of providing the ability for someone to make a copy, and thus implied, and tacit permission. A copy is not the same thing as the original. As the creator, I rightfully claim the original. But when you make a recording, when you print it up and give it to someone, that's theirs.

Ok, maybe if you just lent it to them but stipulated to not copy it, that's a violation of a gentleman's agreement. If you want to make that stick, the recipient, under equity and common law, you have to make them sign an agreement with a witness that they will not. No matter how much you may protest, if you don't have agreement with a authentic, verifiable recording, you have nothing, the matter is not justiciable. Without evidence, it is just he said she said, hearsay.

No monopoly is valid, especially not under any legal system that claims it grandfathers in the British Acts which includes between the Magna Carta and now. None of these old Acts have been struck down, and yes, I will concede, most modern judges will laugh at you, maybe even say 'you are correct but that is not normal anymore'. Since when did law have anything to do with normal? Law should be about protecting people's lives and property, which are one and the same thing anyway. Protecting vaporous intangible things implicitly violates life and property.

If you don't want people to copy, don't give them a copy. Simple as that. Sure you might be able to get nasty men with guns to hunt down those who do, but that does not make you right, or just.