Communism is not about removing excess. Communism is about redistributing excess to the proletariat.

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  • “Who is preventing you from distributing digital art?”

    With a .png file, nobody. But not all digital art boils down to just saving a .png file. Try redistributing Nintendo video games (also a form of art) and avoiding a lawsuit.

    “They should not be left in the dirt if they make a successful piece of art” So… they should be treated differently if many people remix their art? You didn’t somehow magically put value into an art piece when someone remixes it. When someone remixes your art, they are the sole people adding value to the already-generated value created when you make art. The number of people being interested/uninterested in your art doesn’t randomly change how much work you put into it.


  • No. Labor was put into the art, in the same way labor was put into the “create a bicycle” button. The bicycles are not the art themselves, they are meant to be stand-ins for the valueless copies of digital art. (This is not saying that digital art is not valuable, this is merely saying that copying digital art to another device creates no value) Regarding physical art, while it is naturally scarce, the IP of the art is not the same as the physical art piece itself. The advent of digital art is what created the contradiction between artists getting paid and derivative works being made. This post is not about collectivizing the physical pieces of art, it is about collectivizing the intellectual property created by making art.