> artists should be payed for creation, not for access to the works - that's how commissions work, and that's why AI pictures prospered Looking through 1929s a

> artists should be payed for creation, not for access to the works - that's how commissions work, and that's why AI pictures prospered Looking through 1929s art that just entered public domain now in 2025, that's something that surprised me, how much of that stuff was commissioned by some wealthy individual who paid up front. Lots of popular stuff was created that way it seems, while I don't think that's nearly as popular to do today.