If you copy a photo of mine, I haven't lost anything. It's
a bad analogy.
If people consistently copy your photos with impunity, you've lost your job. The same goes for writer and movie makers.
soon you'll have cameras that take a billion photos all at
the same time with every available setting, then allow you
to navigate through and select the best.
Good luck navigating through a billion photos...
(And can also be automated by surveying people or doing
A/B testing etc)
... or autoselecting through a billion photographs. What's a good photograph is independent of how many people feel it's a good photograph. If you ask the general public to pick the best photos between some Cartier-Bresson's and some of your own black-and-white shots intended to appeal to the general public (assuming you have a moderate ability to make such photographs), I know what the outcome is. Entirely independent of what are actually the best photo's.
And even if you could auto-select the best shot, a billion photographs of people on some village square wouldn't include the shot this guy made. A billion photographs taken around noon would never have included this shot. A billion photographs with a different cliffline would never have included this shot. A bajillion monkeys will never write Shakespeare in the lifetime of the universe.
And even if you could auto-select the best shot, a billion photographs of people on some village square wouldn't include the shot this guy made. A billion photographs taken around noon would never have included this shot. A billion photographs with a different cliffline would never have included this shot. A bajillion monkeys will never write Shakespeare in the lifetime of the universe.