I suppose if you've got the money to throw around then you can get the rules bent to suit your own views. How much of what you see is from laws and legal battles and how much from the threat of lawyers and courts? The people with the money play whipsaw on the people with less in court wherever there's the least bit of room to get away with it, being right is worth all of about 10% most of the time.
Home VCR was invented in the US but thanks to the threat of copyright suits it was impossible to make them in the US. So the technology was sold in Japan, far from US courts and then... sold in the US where no huge legal battle made copying the TV show you were watching illegal as predicted. If you want to argue law and rights on that one, go ahead. There's still gray area between 'competing' rights. But if you aren't just blowing air then it would cost a large fortune just going one round in court either way.
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