He ignores a huge number of problems: for example, if you copyright news (i.e. the facts), who owns it. It is often reported independently by multiple sources in parallel. Can no one else talk about an exclusive at all? If you need to pay to link or to re-produce short quotes you destroy a lot of the usefulness of the web. Those are the sort of copyrights the newpaper industry are talking about.

With regard to music, yes it is expensive to promote music, but that it partly because of competition from lots of other well funded people. Reduce the funding the everyone, and it will become cheaper.

That said, some of the comments are very insightful.