Interesting how artists don't make enough money from their creations, so our solution is to make certain information illegal to share, rather than give them a universal basic income.
You can't give UBI to a subset of people. Then it's not universal anymore.
But if you did give artists a basic income, how much art would they need to produce to qualify? What qualifies as art? The law doesn't do well with those kinds of questions.
Better to implement true UBI. Give it to everyone, and afford more security to folks who want to focus on art.
On SSI right now. My art has exploded recently because I have a lot of time. Every day, at least one complete piece. Still pretty poor, struggling financially. But oil pastels, gesso, baby oil, cotton balls, piece of plastic... because free time, I'm excitedly experimenting, create pieces deeply layered, sculptural. Was never possible when employed.
UBI and copyright are not mutually exclusive. Why wouldn't artists want to earn more on top for the work they do and the value they create, like every other profession?!
So what you're suggesting is the artists should make a set income, determined by the legislature.
And then create lots of free art that isn't copyrighted.
So that a corporation can come along, take their art, and use it compared with their superior distribution and marketing to make more profit off of it than the artist ever could, without paying them.
Oh Ive formed my opinions based on research and facts. I just cant be bothered putting together well thought out arguments with references for people on social media who have pretty clearly decided to not change their opinion.
Left or right they just claim cherrypicking or bias, then with a straight face tell me that if I read the research from their sources and realised the bias in mine they would see I was wrong.
Its a waste of time, especially when they arent even trying to discuss things with you, just telling you to do research.
If their art doesn't make enough money then it's clearly not in enough demand. It sucks but thats how things work. Only a small number of artists can ever coexist at the same time.