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Originally Posted by Giggleton
This doesn't seem right to me. How would something like that disincentive an artist to create? In fact, allowing me to do that sounds like an incentive to create.
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Leonardo, please create the most beautiful portrait of a woman that man has ever seen; when you are done, I will draw a mustache on it.
Does that help you see why it might be a disincentive?
Or how about, spend 5 years of your life writing a novel that publishers love.. but they refuse to pay you for it and also are going to make changes to it without your permission. Your morally complex antagonist is going to be replaced with a mustache twirling villain because readers hate morally ambiguous villains.
Or every idiot with a word processor is going to add a Mary/Marty-Sue character to the novel and republish it so they can show all their friends how cool they are.
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Bill
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Bill