The idea that I have to "self-assess the value" of everything I create, and if I don't, I effectively lose my rights to it, sounds absolutely terrifying to me.

The idea that I have to "self-assess the value" of everything I create, and if I don't, I effectively lose my rights to it, sounds absolutely terrifying to me. This proposal completely misses the fact that most creatives are creative because they want to make stuff, and that money comes second at least. I want to be able to write a song, play it to friends, put it on the internet for free and then if it blows up (which is very unlikely), I still want to be able to profit from it. The idea that I need to pay money now so that if I maybe ever score a hit record, I get to keep the rewards, seems very aggressively anti-art to me. It turns every creation into a wager. If I want to speculate I'll open Robinhood, not Ableton, thank you very much.