I shall juxtapose two artists scrubbing the decks on the high seas¹.

Hårda Bud illustrates the history of that mercantile privilege we owe three centuries of thanks to Queen Anne for:

Nina Paley provides us with a clue that artists who prohibit commercial use of their work should be unsurprised if they remain excluded from the new, ‘pay it forward’² marketplace:

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¹ My tricorn tips to Jon Newton – Jolly Roger: copyright in cyberspace

² Artists being paid not for work they’ve already published, but to produce and publish new work.