Yeah it's pretty despicable to take something that the creator made freely viewable and charge money for it. That thinking actually is pretty awful of you.
That's taking all the free condiments and setting up a booth outside the restaurant to charge money for them. The restaurant has the right to stop you from selling them, and to call the cops to chase you off when you steal piles of them - even if you're just rearranging their display so the box is outside the restaurant. On top of being theft it's morally very wrong.
When I was a kid I visited Europe with my family. In a Belgian city we came across a statue of an angel with wings stretched out along the walls of the building it stood at the corner of. To this day it has inspired me to desire to create public art for the purpose of beautifying public space - not because someone charged admission to the street, but because the artist wanted to do nothing more than create a work of beauty for the public. Nobody has the right to take what the artist made public and earn individual profit from it.
Similarly, as an artist I have also been inspired to create art which is private and personal - or to create art for someone else with the same effect. Nobody has the right to invade my private expressions of emotion and creativity that are not shared publicly and gain profit from it.
Paid work is even more of a violation - as it really does steal income from the artist.
Public work, private work, and commission work all have their own compounding reasons for the rights of the creator to necessarily outweigh the benefit of works being distributed against the creator's will. That is looking at the situation as a whole, and there aren't other considerations to discuss.
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That's taking all the free condiments and setting up a booth outside the restaurant to charge money for them. The restaurant has the right to stop you from selling them, and to call the cops to chase you off when you steal piles of them - even if you're just rearranging their display so the box is outside the restaurant. On top of being theft it's morally very wrong.
When I was a kid I visited Europe with my family. In a Belgian city we came across a statue of an angel with wings stretched out along the walls of the building it stood at the corner of. To this day it has inspired me to desire to create public art for the purpose of beautifying public space - not because someone charged admission to the street, but because the artist wanted to do nothing more than create a work of beauty for the public. Nobody has the right to take what the artist made public and earn individual profit from it.
Similarly, as an artist I have also been inspired to create art which is private and personal - or to create art for someone else with the same effect. Nobody has the right to invade my private expressions of emotion and creativity that are not shared publicly and gain profit from it.
Paid work is even more of a violation - as it really does steal income from the artist.
Public work, private work, and commission work all have their own compounding reasons for the rights of the creator to necessarily outweigh the benefit of works being distributed against the creator's will. That is looking at the situation as a whole, and there aren't other considerations to discuss.