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Better? Almost certainly. Art would be for pleasure first and foremost, not profit, once that government-enforced incentive is removed, like things were before. No more royalties. You'd be free to do whatever you want with media: improve it, worsen it, republish it. Of course, people would still be free to commission artists so it's not like big projects would cease to exist (though you'd probably see less franchiseslop since people would fund whatever they wanted to see directly). Don't like the direction a certain artist took? Make your own version.
Beyond art, there'd be no more proprietary software or hardware designs or technology. Anyone'd be free to reverse-engineer things and make it themselves: actual competition.