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Originally Posted by GeoffC
Someone who works for a living, and then retires with a pension - when they finally die the money stops.
Why should an author/artist have a continuing money-stream after they are, also, dead?
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But many people set up businesses that continue to provide family employment/income for generations.
Should Ford have shut down when Henry Ford died?
Should music by Michael Jackson, Jim Morrison and Harry Chapin all be free because they are dead? Nothing for their families?
I do agree copyright shouldn't go on forever, but I don't think it should stop at their death. I like the 50 year idea.