The purpose of copyright is exactly to make money.

The purpose of patents is to promote (edit: scientific research).

Giving someone money for the book they wrote for the rest of their life plus some time is all about money.

Money is not the end goal; it is only useful insofar as it advances creative works. Too often it stifles creativity, science or otherwise.

Money is the author's goal. More work from author is society's goal.

The purpose of copyright is to promote science and arts by allowing the creators to make money.

(In theory. The practice, as with most things, gets complicated.)

Jeff Sedlick appears to have created a photograph that is iconic over 30 years later, while the tattoo artist is just copying it. If the point of copyright law is to encourage creativity then don't we want Sedlick to win?

Copyright is a compromise between the creatives and the community. Sedlick has already received more than enough compensation and protection to enable this creation, and that was the point of copyright - to encourage the creation of new works, not to protect them in eternity.

The compromise has diminishing returns for providing protections and affordances on longer time scales, and 30 years is really pushing it.

Do we know this? He's not even got a Wikipedia page. My understanding is that photographers earn peanuts and I for one would be raging if some Instragammer was coining it in from copying the one piece of work that made me famous.

I know that 30 years is enough time for the copyright limit I think is reasonable.

Also I hope he's doing fine with his client list https://sedlik.com/getinfo.htm

No, because then Jeff Sedlick will retire and stop taking photographs which is not encouraging creativity.

There are few incentives for producing scientific and artistic advancement that are as powerful as monetary gain.

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

It is pretty clearly about promoting those things via economic incentives, by giving inventors and authors a limited monopoly.

in spirit perhaps, in practice not so much

Promotion via control. The person afforded that control can use it to fund their art or encourage future artists.