[PuddleCheese]

If the artist is posting personal work, then it is covered by copyright automatically per the Berne Convention.

Copyright exists to incentivize authors, artists, scientists, etc. to create original works by providing a temporary monopoly.

If an artist works with a client, the legal stipulations are going to be different for each commissioned work, generally.

Depending on the client, they may be better able to protect an artists work than the artist themselves, and with credit...

[matheusmoreira]

> temporary monopoly

What a joke. That "temporary" monopoly lasts centuries and gets extended whenever some rich company's imaginary property is about to enter the public domain. Copyright duration is functionally infinite, you will be long dead before your culture is returned to you.

[PuddleCheese]

Right. I doubt many people would disagree copyright REFORM is sorely lacking. Or are you suggesting that an artist is not allowed to benefit from their work because Disney has extended copyright?

[matheusmoreira]

Creators can benefit as much as they want. Just not through artificial scarcity. That ship sailed the second computers were invented and they need to stop trying to put that genie back in its bottle.

Either copyright remains unenforceable or computing as we know it today will be destroyed. There is no middle ground and I know which side I'm on. Computers are among the greatest inventions of humanity, they are too precious to be jeopardized because of such concerns as invalidated business models.

[fennecfoxy]

Well yeah, I don't know if people have noticed but notice how Disney has started using the classic Mickey Mouse animation at the start of all their works now, because they know their already extended copyright is about to expire.