[vintermann]

I didn't "forget". I never agreed that I had some natural right to exclude anyone from or demand payment for using bits of information I "made".

It's not also actually "getting paid for your work" when you're talking about copyright. It's "collecting rent for your property".

Once upon a time, artists and writers got conned into thinking that was a good deal for them, forgoing payment for work in return for a dangling promise of rent extraction. The vast majority of them were wrong.