Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit

• QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Look, I understand that money isn’t the primary incentive for (hopefully all) artists. But I don’t think a system where you effectively cannot make a living as a full-time artist is beneficial for society either. Since you’re an artist, can I ask how you subsist without an alternative source of income?

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  • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Commissions don’t give a damn about copyright. The end product is made specifically to please one person and reproductions are already worthless, since only Jimbo wants an impressionist picture of Blue Eyes White Dragon wearing a tutu. Jimbo ends up happy, since he got his picture, I end up happy, as Jimbo pays me for the time it took to paint it, and anyone else that manages to copy it can be happy as well.

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    • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m happy that you’re able to work on commission, but with all due respect, your logic is somewhat specific to your chosen medium. Various other forms of art—novels come to mind—would not be so unaffected.

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      • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not only would they, they already are - that’s what crowd funding like Patreon is for, and it’s also how it gets used. There are hundreds of thousands of sites sharing “copyrighted” material produced for supporters, and yet no artist bothers going after them, because it’s irrelevant. The people who want that content enough to pay for it do so, anyone else is just tagging along for the ride.

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