[eevee]

I'm not talking about putting someone else's art on buttons. I'm talking about artists putting their own art on buttons.

[mbernstein]

Just so I understand what you're advocating - you're advocating that, if I, an artist, drew a picture of Mario from Super Mario Brothers, I should be able to sell that picture on some sort of physical media (button, pin, etc)?

[eevee]

Why not? It's your work. You can't really be competing with Nintendo, because they can't create that same picture, because they don't employ you. Also you are extremely unlikely to be making a material impact on the bottom line of a multi-billion-dollar international media company.

Also, this is a thing many people already do, so I'm really advocating that it's fine for them to continue doing it.