Here&#x27;s one way: once you release something publicly enough it becomes part of our culture. You don&#x27;t own our culture, any part of it, even if you created some of the art in it. Your work lives in a context surrounded by other works you did not create, and could only have been created as a response to them. That&#x27;s how art works. So while you have some rights to it, you don&#x27;t have absolute and complete rights to determine what happens to it after release; it belongs primarily to society now, with a respectful nod towards you. People are free to talk about it, watch it, look at it, listen to it, learn from it in ways you never imagined. And you won&#x27;t get paid for all of them. Welcome to creating art.