I do not believe in intellectual property. I realize that many people will object to this position as shortsighted and naive, but I fully realize the implications if there were no copyright laws. The point is, I don't believe that anything which is not physically tangible can be owned, that ideas to not belong to individuals, and that there should be no protection for profit of those ideas, only credit. Let the debate begin.

So it's ok that I spend 5 years starving while writing my novel, that someone just grabs and publishes turning it into a best seller and that somebody else turns into a blockbuster movie, as long as I get 'credit'. And, I guess the same is true for the 10 years I spend writing my first music album that somebody just grabs and sells for profit to themselves as long as I get the credit. "Oh well done Mr. Tab', please write some more masterpieces... you're very good you know! By the way, you're looking a bit thin, are you eating ok in the shelter?'

That's why you shouldn't rely on your artistic works for a living, and that's why nobody should be able to sell art. That's my whole point. Art is meant to be self expression, not business.

but then what will keep a creator going, Man cannot live on inspiration alone

Art is self expression, and many more people produce unpaid art for their own expression and enjoyment than paid-for art, but if we took the business, out of artistic industry, we'd have no movies, no music CD's, no radio, no TV, no books, no comics, no video games etc etc, because these things can only work with mountains of money behind them and with the purpose to make mountains of money ahead of them.

Ultimately, the lack of access to art hereto provided by the huge commercial endeavours that promote it, would seriously stifle all artistic expression as there would be virtually nothing available to inspire or influence artists apart from their own limited localised knowledge and ideas, which is all very well from a purely artistic expression point of view for artists working in very narrow fields with simple tools, but myriads of people working in specialised fields in the artistic industries will be at a total loss as to how to express themselves and the non artistic consumer will lose out big time, because 99% of their sources of entertainment will cease to exist.