Also applies to cats

(Whether anyone wants to *buy* these prints would be entirely different conversation)

That's a way to think about it, yes! These are called "public domain" works. Everyone can also make adaptions or modifications or variations of that work, which they can sell.
I can paint fanciful mustaches on printed copies of the Mona Lisa to sell. Or just the print itself.

2/ It's entirely legal to print/record/cover and sell the musical works of Tom Lehrer
Meanwhile, only Stephen King can decide who is allowed to print copies of his stories.
It all depends on the restrictions the creator chooses to set.

Good question! Copyright is the right to define restrictions on copies or modifications of a work made by others - that can include defining a *lack* of restrictions (Creative Commons zero).

Auto-gen captions being always censored is worsening this trend too. It's creating a fake standard of how we want captions stylized that people then try to match. Gimme my curse words!!!

Maybe pedantic:
> thanks for clearing that up, LA Times.
You linked to Bezos's emotional support newspaper, not the LA Times.