RE: Please Stop Demanding Socialized Healthcare
Ideas are not property. They're not scarce, nor are they rivalrous, so they lack the fundamental qualities that make property rights applicable. Does a copy of your work remove the original from your possession?
Now there's nothing wrong with creating licensing agreements for using your work, which would prohibit use outside of agreed upon terms. I'm all for that. However, that's not the crux of your argument. The crux of your argument is that you own the work that you put into producing these images. You don't own labor. You own the product of your labor. You also don't own copies others make that haven't entered license agreements with you. It's not theft. No one's stealing from you. You can't steal something that doesn't exist yet (future earnings).
I think that's a crazy argument. LOL! I'm not going to debate it any longer though. I know my legal rights, and know I legally own my images. You have opinions about those rights, and you are entitled to that! The blogger who recently had to pay up $7,500 for using an image she had no right to use, found that out the hard way.
You can laugh all you want, but you can't provide a logically consistent moral argument in favor of your position that derives from private property ethics. Since you clearly believe in private property, you need to think through your positions, rather than utilizing the government to prosecute people for perceived injustices.
I'm not saying you shouldn't be paid for your images, nor that you shouldn't shout down plagiarists every chance you get, but a copy isn't theft. It's not. It simply doesn't meet the criteria for being theft.