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Originally Posted by HarryT
If you ran a company, you would be allowed to pass the ownership of that company - and the income from it - on to your heirs. Writing a book is just as much work as starting a company. Why should you not be allowed to pass the income from a book on to your heirs?
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Why should you? Copyright is a right and not property so why should the same intuitions hold?
Personally I think passing property to heirs should not be allowed but it is probably impossible to implement such a system. With copyright or other granted rights it is easy to implement a system were you cannot pass it along when you die.