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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
copyright laws are already heavily weighted against the people inheriting said rights.
If you inherit property, no one comes and takes it away from you after 50 years.
No one demands that you give back the $1,000 that Great Aunt Freda left you in her will after 70 years.
A person who inherits millions of shares in an ongoing successful business, get to keep them and pass them on to their heirs with no time restrictions.
Helen
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On otherhand if someone inherits patent it still does run out. If you inherit lease or contract it can too run out. So can time-limited licences if they are at all transferable at all.
Immaterial things and matterial things are different, no one is going to take away the money or things bought with it, which owner of copyright made while he had the right.