In music, fine arts, video games, photography there are tons of extremely successful European content producers. Cinema/TV are also quite big too (in no small part thanks to EU legislation incentivising it, but it's top notch quality so who cares, win-win-win).
Not that we should enable that. Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi and Bach are cool, but who should be making money now from their IP? I'd say nobody, it should already be part of CC IMHO.
no surprise here, you don't seem the type to appreciate art, in any form.
I guess you don't even watch Netflix...
> very mediocre European domestic content industry
Or maybe this is an attempt by artists to protect their works from being exploited by big corporations in exchange for nothing. Which is fine to me, even if their work really were mediocre, nobody can deprive authors of their rights.
It will be the same story as with Spotify, they will be happy to license it for a bit company for pennies which then again will license it upstream for a big amount
That's entirely on you. There are some big names in the (european) comic book industry.