Why is digital music is freely copyable, yet movies and eBooks are still tied to a device/account?

If I download a song from iTunes, I can copy it to any device that plays music, even non-Apple ones. Yet if I buy a movie, TV show, or eBook, I can only view it on the device/account I used to make the purchase.
Why is that?

I will not be able to answer question directly with yes or no, but since it is an excellent question I will try to elaborate. For now we are going to leave icloud drive alone and find out what apple id is associated with backup.
1. Icloud backup is definitely starts to be attached to icloud id. So if you do need to restore your information from icloud that is the first thing you asked for. But after initial settings restore you are actually asked for all other id's that attached to licensed content that was inside of your phone's backup. So if you downloaded free or purchased some stuff in itunes/app store - your apple id is attached to those and asked for during download. Here is why some people who use torrents to get music will be asked to provide apple id's they do not know and will call Apple or come here to say that their account was hacked.
2. Itunes backup. Unlike icloud itunes designed in the way where it splits backup in two. Backup of settings - done by "backup now" button. Backup of licensed content - done by transferring purchases (that is done by clicking "file-devices- transfer purchases"). Settings backup is not attached to anything, but restore will place both ID's on the phone. Applications/music backup while not requiring any kind of info for restore, requires appleid to be authorized for the computer in question.
That is probably the best I can do, but would like to add that for any particular situation or with time info above can and will change, as Apple changes mac to me to cloud to drive and to the future.

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