the dream: the law protects the humble artist from having their work stolen!
the reality: under the vast majority of contractual relations artist-workers have no ownership over what they produce, disney can sue you for drawing three circles on a napkin, and urban outfitters will just give you a middle finger and clone your designs anyway because fuck you we have lawyers
“Taken together these current left ideas suggest a future of small groups engaged in subsistence farming and the production of artisanal cheese, perhaps on the edges of cities where survivalist enclaves and drone-wielding tech workers alike experiment with urban gardens. Such groupings reproduce their lives in common, yet the commons they reproduce is necessarily small, local, […]exclusive and elite[.]” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/neofeudalism-the-end-of-capitalism/
just kind of here, you know?