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Is it, though? Copyright holders and creators are completely different things.
Before you can pay those copyright holders their capital income, you have to know who they are. Which means you can't just download random pictures of the internet. You need pictures with a known provenance. Well, it turns out that there are corporations dedicated to providing just such pictures. How lucky for them if society would choose to "respect creators" in this way. The payment to even a prolific stock photographer may be tiny, but they'd get a cut from each one.
It may not be about money for you, but the people who pay to push that talking point may have a different attitude.
That’s a good point. You’re entirely correct. I had a much simpler idea in mind - I was only thinking of small, independent artists who posted their images online and were the copyright holders of their own work.