re: stop me painting my own copy to hang in my living room.
Is that what happens? Youtube is full of carefully crafted replicas of copyrighted material?
If I was a painter and you wanted to paint something that looks the same that's fine. But that isn't how this works, the copies take no effort to make, involve no creativity on your behalf and are indistinguishable from the original.
The thing is you love paintings and they bring you happiness. But you seem to think that's all the reward a painter needs.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
