Article just updated. 9 dead, tragically.

Calculus of Negligence/ Learned Hand rule. If the burden/cost of taking precautions is less than the severity of the harm times the probability of the harm occurring and you don't take those precautions (PL>B), you've breached your duty and may be held liable for negligence.

Edit: confused as to the downvotes. It’s a real thing that US courts use. It’s taught in law school torts 1 classes as basically one of the 1st things law students learn.

US law student half way to graduation here.

I would say much more than half of lawyers and law students are actually very sympathetic to the plight of artists, most of us aren’t like the STEM people (in fact, lawyers and law students being unable to do math is kind of a meme in the legal world.) Many people who wind up in law are from liberal arts or arts backgrounds and are just trying to use those same skills to level up in the job market. I was a history major in college and I loved every second of it, I thought for a long time I wanted to stay in academia, teach, publish, research, and so on; but the pandemic happened and I decided to go where the cash was greener (it’s true, the only way to fortify yourself in these strange times is money.)

All that to say, most lawyers/law students ARE artists or artist-adjacent, and we haven’t forgotten where we came from.