Summat came up in an offlist conversation when I mentioned I had a picture
lifted from an early website. The question of reward/compensation arose
immediately. Which led me to....

How did the Music Industry (and Hollywood) ever manage to get the entire
world to play the 'Royalties Game'??

Why do 'artistes' expect to get paid over and over again for a job of work
they get/got paid for and which gets put into the Public Domain? A builder
can construct a ****ter for a busy market square and he'll get paid for his
work but he don't get a slice of every dump taken in it for the next hundred
years or whatever? IYSWIM...

The MI and film makers have done such a good mind job on the public
(including you) that everyone thinks it's only 'fair and right' that a
performer gets paid forever after when they knock out a tune and that any
reproduction of that 'work' is 'Intellectual Theft'....

Discuss by all means, but if you aren't able to think 'outside of the box'
you'll be wrong... ;-)