Please elaborate. I am also one who creates. To me, my works "living on" doesn't mean allowing anyone to touch them willy nilly after 12 years. My work living on means people are enjoying it in its original, pure form.

I'm an asshole leech because of this attitude? I don't give a damn about the money. I'm not joking or exaggerating for the sake of argument. I never thought about creative work for money. I just wanted to create something. It's about the fact that my works are my own: I spent the years turning them over in my mind, I refined the drafts again and again, I tortured myself with ideas, I spent nights staring at the ceiling in bed thinking about how to improve, I put in the hours every day honing my abilities. And you're telling me, that if I don't want a Hollywood suit taking my ideas and running them into the ground, if I don't want derivative fanfiction garbage being sold against my will, if I don't want people printing shirts based off my designs and not giving me a share of the profit, if I don't want others making money off the ideas that I spent a significant portion of my time bringing to life that I'm an asshole leech? My creative works are literally a part of me, I put so much of my heart and soul into them. I don't want others taking that and profiting from it WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. Notice I allowed for that caveat: if someone came to me with an idea based off my work that I felt was faithful to my vision, I'd be more than happy to extend a license to them. But I'm an asshole leech?

Please explain. The future you people want to build terrifies me. And I suspect most of the people with the view that copyright shouldn't exist have never been artists in their entire life. I am literally almost in tears thinking of what you people are trying to do. You want the artist and his soul to be exposed to every claw and talon that wants to sink into them, you want it to be free for all, and the artists as little more than serfs for the public devouring.