Wait a minute. We are constantly told that the natural idea of the Internet is that what appears there is no longer private, that everything there is public and open.
The law is wrong. Those wishing to protect ideas and images have technological solutions. Text itself can be put in an image, and displayed only by displaying the image. Text in an image cannot be extracted and made separate unless high end photoshopping tools are used, or the reader merely types all the words themselves.
And any image can have a “watermark” image embedded in it, providing owner identification of the image. Even “memes” can be created this way.
There are solutions. They are all technical and do not need the law.
Really?
I can use SnagIt, a very inexpensive piece of software to copy any image because it simply grabs the bits going to my display adapter.
Even a screen grab does that.