[jamilton]

>Lack of IP protection in our culture has made it impossible for 99.9% of artists to thrive economically.

Can you explain this position? My understanding is most artists don't thrive economically because there's not much demand for the art they make. I'm not sure that's correct, but "lack of IP protections" seems even less likely for most artists. What protections do you think would help?

It seems to me that the current system primarily benefits corporations who acquire a vast library of IP and can afford to legally defend it all as necessary.

I agree that a different set of policies would result in more art being created and more artists who are able to support themselves doing art, but my immediate assumption of what that would look like is more like funding art educations and exhibitions (of various kinds).

[melagonster]

in Japan, company can't buy the copyright from author, obviously this give artist advantage.

[dale_glass]

And that may be a bit helpful, but still everything I've heard indicates that drawing manga is absolutely hellish for one's body and mind. Look at the famous schedule:

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-53ec1e395a4b59adb8391...

Yeah, the law may be more on their side, but overall it seems unless you're somebody on the level of Akira Toriyama you likely barely managed to retain your sanity while cranking out your world famous works, and even the famous ones suffer greatly during the process.

[melagonster]

yes, but this can make sure they get money of their part, we can thinking about novelists have better condition.