The capital of the artists is their intellectual property, that's the point.

So if I look at everything you created with an omniscient view how many violations will I find in your artwork?

These days it's both publishers and artists attempting to create RMS's world of a right to read.

Under capitalism artist would be unable to make a profit off of their art.

Under communism artists would be barred from making art entirely, ordered by the state to work in a place where it is deemed to be productive.

You must be joking? It's obvious if you actually care to look that leftist governments value the arts much more than liberal ones.

Is there a study on this? (Serious question.)

It would seem that it opens you up to the problem of other people deciding whether you're an artist or not and if so whether you're a good artist.

The same of course happens with capitalism, where it's your customers doing it. (Or in the case of books, which are almost never profitable, the VC-like publishers deciding to give you advances.)

So of course the reason modern mixed economies are good is there's more than one set of people that you may be able to convince to fund you.

> Under capitalism artist would be unable to make a profit off of their art.

Sure they would, it would just be "I got paid to do this art/music piece that then someone will use in their product they sell"

"Capitalism" is selling the right itself to someone else, not earning royalties from it. IP rights are government creations; it's not like you signed a contract with each royalty payer.

Actually, you are wrong. The capital of the artist is to physically create art. AI has to be fed physically created art and the told by humans what it is being fed. AI is not 'inspired', it is statistically driven by a human written progam, using mapping of human made work, labeled, tagged and defined by more humans to render a shopping list input by another human. Humans are using programming technology, written by humans to exploit other humans physical work.

> The capital of the artist is to physically create art.

Surely that's their labor? Capital is the factor of production that isn't labor (or land if Georgist.)