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Certainly it's not precisely the same, I agree; I was using it as a counter to the previous poster's assertion that copyright holders were "unique" in being able to earn money after death. They are not. Pretty much all of us can do it who are members of company pension schemes.
An author's royalty payments are the legacy he leaves to his family. Let's say an author writes a massively popular bestseller, which is published the week before he dies. The publisher will earn a shed-load of money from it; the bookstores will earn money from it; is it really right that the author's family should have no entitlement whatsoever to the income it generates?
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