This is the dead horse I keep beating in these threads. If there were no copyright, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. would all be doing this to artists for massive profit and with their brands front and center. People would actually ask questions like &quot;what, you mean Apple didn&#x27;t make The Hobbit?&quot;<p>The idea that everyone would just transition to a gift culture and give artists a big hug in a post-copyright world is incredibly naive. Too many people are cheap greedy assholes. It&#x27;d be an exploitation-fest for the five seconds it would take for all creative industries to go bankrupt. Then there would be nothing.