creativity

The muse has been hovering this week and I have been creating paperdolls and labels for quilters and scrappers. i notice that some of the wide awakes go around to antiqueshops and scan ephemera and presumably copyright it as their own. Although it was done buy someone else (who probably didn't get paid more than $5.00 for it at the time). Then they publish them in collections and sell them. I don't know how I feel about this. I suppose as long as credit is given to the artist - and the artist is dead and the artist's last spawn and their spawn are dead, then i guess I'm alright with it.