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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 9653274" data-attributes="member: 6685541">Let's follow this through.If you want to train yourself on an artist's work, how do you do this? You might go to a museum and study the work. You might take a class. You might get art books from a store or the library. You might go online to sites that host an artist's work.If you aren't relying on stolen work, then somehow the artist has been compensated. They've been paid by a publisher or a gallery or their work has been purchased or you are directly paying them as a teacher. Even if you get art books from a library, that library had to purchase the book which puts money back in the publisher's hands so they can pay future artists.So yes. When you study the work of artists, somehow they are getting paid or have been paid.</blockquote>