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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
To suggest (if that was what you intended) that J. D. Salinger, or any other great author, would not have written x, y or z if copyright had ended on their deathbed and they wouldn't be able to monetise their art, is both ludicrous and somewhat insulting in my opinion.
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It would be perfectly true for authors such as William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. Both of those gentlemen wrote solely for money.