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> For cinema for instance a loooot of the money that serves into making movies come directly from taxpayer money

I don't quite get your point either. Are you implying you would like ownership to be transfered from your tax money to whatever is created afterward with that money?

Would you feel entitled to ask for reports of how your neighbor spends his unemployment grant, because that's partly paid with your tax money?

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> Are you implying you would like ownership to be transfered from your tax money to whatever is created afterward with that money?

I'd rather have no notion of private ownership of ideas, knowledge and cultural goods at all.

> Would you feel entitled to ask for reports of how your neighbor spends his unemployment grant, because that's partly paid with your tax money?

I don't think it's really meaningful to compare something that allows human beings to (barely) stay alive, to the benefit of for-profit corporations.

Where do you draw the line between artist making money and for-profit corporation? Does a person have the right to limit the distribution of their own work?

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