Art is labor. Just because the end result is an "idea" with no scarcity doesn't mean that time, energy, blood, sweat, and tears didn't go into making it. I consider profiting off someone else's art without compensating them for that work to basically be wage theft.

Almost all art is created without any compensation. Some failed rock band should not be given money because they "tried hard".

Nobody owes artists commercial success for the act of making art.

The idea that it is work theft not to compensate failed artist is ridiculous. Who is to pay, the state?

Of course many of the most successful creators in the world give their creations away for free. They do not charge a single cent from their watchers and still can make enormous amounts of money. YouTube proved that you do not need IP protection to become wealthy from your creations. YouTubers make money in other ways, totally independent from policing their IP.