Comment by drcube

This has nothing to do with that.

If you publish something in public for all the world to see, don't expect random strangers to just hand you money for the privilege of seeing it.

But if someone tells you they will pay you for your work, and then when you spend two months working on it, they refuse to pay and furthermore pass the work off as their own, that's fucked up no matter what the copyright laws are in your country.