An artist’s work is copied without asking or compensating them and then sold as a product.
It’s like piracy, except instead of individuals pirating a corporation’s content (which they can’t actually buy anymore) for their private use, it’s corporations pirating an individual’s content to sell it for profit and drive the individual artist out of the market.
So I’d disagree. The images themselves aren’t stolen, but the money that can be made off of them is.
An artist’s work is copied without asking or compensating them and then sold as a product.
It’s like piracy, except instead of individuals pirating a corporation’s content (which they can’t actually buy anymore) for their private use, it’s corporations pirating an individual’s content to sell it for profit and drive the individual artist out of the market.
So I’d disagree. The images themselves aren’t stolen, but the money that can be made off of them is.