Post shower toilet thought: Copyright isn't there to protect the author, it's there to create a multi-billion dollar legal industry.

You can't give UBI to a subset of people. Then it's not universal anymore.

But if you did give artists a basic income, how much art would they need to produce to qualify? What qualifies as art? The law doesn't do well with those kinds of questions.

Better to implement true UBI. Give it to everyone, and afford more security to folks who want to focus on art.

Now that's a cooked thought. How hot was your shower

On SSI right now. My art has exploded recently because I have a lot of time. Every day, at least one complete piece. Still pretty poor, struggling financially. But oil pastels, gesso, baby oil, cotton balls, piece of plastic... because free time, I'm excitedly experimenting, create pieces deeply layered, sculptural. Was never possible when employed.

UBI and copyright are not mutually exclusive. Why wouldn't artists want to earn more on top for the work they do and the value they create, like every other profession?!

The creation can possibly have monetary value, thus the protection. How much is up to society.

This isn't a good argument for UBI.

What if their "art" is actually and utterly a pile of steaming shit?

That is too logical and convenient to be allowed under psychopathic capitalism that runs the world