[Alas Babylon!]

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.

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.

[Wuli]

Snagit, (1) though it has free trials, is, at a technical level “high end” and (2) the vast majority of people (a) do not know about Snagit and (b) are not going to go looking for it. Thus, in most cases, a water-marked image is not author/creator compromised, the number of cases it is compromised will be reduced, and the total cost of legal remediation resolving the much fewer CIVIL cases makes pursuing them more likely.

Creators/authors KNOW their ownership WILL BE compromised. The main thing is to reduce that. They can do that with technology, they don’t need new laws making criminals.