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Originally Posted by HarryT
But some certainly do - eg the posthumous works of J.R.R. Tolkein edited and published by his son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkein. We certainly wouldn't have that without copyright protection. Much of it isn't especially interesting, certainly, but there are some real gems there.
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Why wouldn't we have his posthumous works edited and published without copyright protection? It seems to me quite the contrary would happen actually. Forget it if someone already properly raised this same obvious questioning.
BTW, this reminds me of Chris Browne, heir to Dik Browne of Hagar the Horrible comic strips. He certainly got the very same pencil skills of his father, but none of his humor at all. Chris Browne's Hagar is truly horrible, I'd gladly pay for compilation of his fathers' works, but wouldn't read his Hagar even for free. He's just living on a famed name... sometime the heirs should just be dentists or bureucrats...