Generally they earn a somewhat stable income over time as an employee. Most artists do the vast majority of their work unpaid and then try to make money off of all that work afterwards.
Plus companies wouldn’t be negatively affected by this change, so it is just punishment for individuals.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
You might expand that to “society continuing to allow children to suffer because their parents are unable to care for them is a larger issue than the question of copyright.”
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
If we addressed the core issues of people having what they need to live copyright would no longer have a reason for existing.