Later we argued over whether digital artistic content should be made freely available, and he took the side of unequivocal defense of a user's right to resell, regardless of there being any derivative effort, and with no obligation to compensate the creator. He had no clear concept of how to compensate the original artist aside from an initial work for hire model.
In his desired reality, wealthy persons would provide patronage to artists and artists would have no other source of income, because redistribution would be free. It's positively medieval.