This is a very important point. I have personally brought it up and a number of other people including @smooth have also discussed it.

I have yet to hear from any of the team such as @dantheman or @ned addressing this. As someone who creates art myself the current 30 day limit is quite disheartening.

I think for many professional artists and content creators this could be a deal breaker that will put them off posting their work on Steemit. I am not just talking particularly about big name artists to whom even the largest Steemit payouts will seem like peanuts.

I am talking about those artists and creators who consider their work to be timeless. I think the vast majority of artists think that way. The whole attraction of Steemit is monetising content but if that monetisation is so fleeting what is the point.

Some pieces of work can take weeks or months of preparation to create. It just would not make sense to have to forget about them after 30 days.

It essentially incentivises people to produce cheaper, more rushed work with transient value that will not stand the test of time.

Since these things are stored permanently on the blockchain it will not reflect well on Steemit if most of the work falls into this category.

Indeed this kind of thing encourages the mercenary posting of plagiarised content since the real artists will likely stay away and the scammers will try to take advantage of that - make some money and run.

It is worth the risk for them and the 30 day issue encourages it.

Just today I have seen more examples of this kind of plagiarism via newly formed accounts. Luckily they were caught by community vigilance but that will not catch all of them.

Anyway I hope the team listen and solve this issue.