But that quote is the strawman that you reverberate. It's not a strawman as much as the selection of artists to publish is creative and artistic in its own rig

But that quote is the strawman that you reverberate. It's not a strawman as much as the selection of artists to publish is creative and artistic in its own right. Then the relative distribution in relation to artistic input is still debatable, but out of scope if the question is, whether the publishers compensation should absolutely be forgone, and whether the publishers compensation alone is blown out of proportion compared to their work.