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Originally Posted by tompe
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.
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The concept of "ownership" of a company is not "property" either; it is, in fact, very similar to the idea of copyright. In both cases, you are given the right to "control" something and make money from it. I don't think anyone would say that people shouldn't be able to pass on shares in a company in their will, so why single out copyright in this way? It is discrimination against people who create "ideas" rather than a physical object. Why should that discrimination exist? Creating a story is just as make a creative endeavor as creating a physical entity.