What about illustrators who license their work? Knitters and crocheters who create patterns? There are countless people who sell creative output on a license-basis which would no longer exist in a world without copyright.
Already people who make visual art are demotivated by AI, follow literally any visual artist on Instagram and you’ll see this. Taking away copyright would make that look tiny in comparison.
A kid who grows up watching $favorite-show can never produce derivative works of that show within their lifetime.
Wow, is that a thing? If you're willing to share, I'd love to hear more about these vocations and how they make money.
Do you only care about professional artists or something? Amateur artists deserve legal protection for their artwork too :/
As far as I know they sell the patterns, not the finished knitted artifact. Aspiring knitters buy them to enjoy knitting. The physical representation of the pattern isn't worth anything (just a piece of paper), what you're buying is a license to use their intellectual property, so I'd say they're making money from copyright.