In a way, it's similar to the actors selling their digital images in the movie The Congress. It's inevitable.

Based (how closely ?) on the 1971 black humour science fiction novel "The Futurological Congress" by Stanisław Lem !

(For those that would not know, he coined the term "robot" from the slavic root "work".)

Are you sure? Wikipedia says the word was coined by Karel Capek:

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek?lang=en

Oh damn. My bad - it's funny, I even though to myself : «he would have been quite young, wouldn't he ?»

wow, not many people have seen this movie. 100%.

I'd never heard of it, but definitely going to check it out now. A lot has happened in the ten years since it was created.

Well now that’s an interesting thought. I bet you’re absolutely right with this prediction.

depending on the artist some fans might not enjoy being short changed if the drop in quality is perceivable.