A Short Soundtrack Rant Here

Is it that hard to choose the best music for a soundtrack? I'll just give a small example: travel shows. Isn't practically every piece of classical music in the public domain by now? How hard can it be to get it right, or at least, not glaringly wrong? Case in point: another 'travels through Britain' show, lovely shots of English countryside accompanied by...Vivaldi. He's ITALIAN -- could you not find ANY British composers? Or last night, watching Ken Burn's National Parks series, there was a sequence where the voice-over quote refers to the magnificent expanse as being worthy of Beethoven -- and what's playing during this segment? Aaron Copland's music for "Our Town". I love that music, warm, bucolic, aching in tenderness for small-town life, but not something that indicates the panoramic vistas of the West --- and didn't they hear the part about BEETHOVEN!!?! More examples to follow, I'm sorry to say...