> artists should be payed for creation, not for access to the works - that's how commissions work, and that's why AI pictures prospered
Looking through 1929s art that just entered public domain now in 2025, that's something that surprised me, how much of that stuff was commissioned by some wealthy individual who paid up front. Lots of popular stuff was created that way it seems, while I don't think that's nearly as popular to do today.
...and my personal take is the opposite - it's the other types of art that should be as distributable as ASCII
artists should be payed for creation, not for access to the works - that's how commissions work, and that's why AI pictures prospered
and problem of "reselling of someone else's art" isn't in "re", but in "selling" as a whole