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Old 01-04-2011, 01:11 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
If you create something valuable, though, you are allowed to leave it to your heirs. If you wrote for a living, and had a family, wouldn't you want the royalty payments from your sales to go to your family after your death?

We can argue about how long copyright terms should be, but I have no problem with the fundamental principle of posthumous copyright.
Not with the fundamental principle. But I do have one with the current setup. I still think a "x years after first publication" and not "x years after death"... With the first, the heirs will still get something if the author dies within that x years.
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