Thank you for your opinion about my opinion.
My thoughts on your opinion is that background scenery, as well as murals, aren’t songs. Not all creative endeavors are treated equally, by people or the law. So saying a mural should be treated the same as a song is – in my non-lawyer, just a thinking person opinion – comparing apples to oranges.
Songs have huge industries lobbying hard to limit how they can be used, and ensure that money is collected each time one is heard in a public space.
The muralist lobby hasn’t been keeping up.
Commercial song artists release their creations to the world with an understanding that they will receive some kind of residuals from someone at some point, in addition to whatever they make in album/cd/concert ticket/etc sales.
Commercial muralists don’t.
Again, apples and oranges. Different fields of creative expression, different rules.
