My favorite example is journalists. Journalists were using their real names and I grew up without understanding why that using it is a core value of journalism.
Sweetie I tried making original memes and feedback was controversial as fuck. so yea now I just copy paste.
Mods always ask me to.claridh what my memes mean, ready to fucking ban me bc they think I'm probably a bunch of bad things even though I have like tens of thousands of comments on leftist content on Lemmy.
Had a friend in high school who told me I looked like this character or idk I forget. And that I sounded like them too. Several people had remarked I sound like one of the female characters on this show. And as a teenage male egg, that was pretty based. That was real friendship.
New works could be paid for without the use of copyright, but the people with the money are scared of that idea.
Copyright only protects the copyright holders from other people getting to play with the thing they own.