I can comment and have opinions on the artistic and creative pursuits without actively pursuing all of them. You cannot prove that HP would not have been writt

I can comment and have opinions on the artistic and creative pursuits without actively pursuing all of them. You cannot prove that HP would not have been written if profit protections didn't exist, unless you ask JK "if copyright didn't exist, would you still have written HP?". My argument is that creative works will still be created because they always have been, and because people have created them before our laws existed. You also assume that for-profit creators stopping their work is a bad thing. I am happy for people to be earning a living doing what they do. But I think the way we go about providing them with it is wrong. The material reality is that artists were only successful if they were actually good. That shouldn't stop people from doing them - like I said elsewhere, I think artistic pursuits are good in themselves aside from profit. But walk into any bookstore, go to the fiction section, and gaze on all the mediocre literature you can buy. I don't say that arrogantly. I couldn't write much of it. I am not putting myself above those authors. I am simply saying that the works themselves are mediocre, they won't be studied or remembered. They are simply entertainment. And I am happy for it to exist. But I can guarentee you that many of those authors were writing purely in the hopes that they'd "make it big". That maybe, just maybe, a movie company would see their book, and want to buy multi-million dollar film rights. This, to me, is a perverse incentive for writing. And so I have no problem if less of it is published with the changing of laws. Not everybody needs to go to university. Not everybody is a skilled enough actor to make it on Broadway. Not everybody is the next Michaelangelo. Pretending that the arts is a level playing field in terms of ability is a waste of time. Talent is always rewarded eventually. The best artists don't need to say how good they are. The best authors don't need to say how good they are. In almost every case of copyright litigation, I saw mediocre creators quibbling over small profits that are "rightfully theirs". Just stop. Save your breath, and find a day job. Keep writing for the love it. Start a journal when you go home. Try and sell some of your work to a small publishing house for a small fee. And then be chuffed if enough people like it enough to copy it.