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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
So? Have I also stated that end of copyright should or must annul a valid contract?
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It makes the contract meaningless. If copyright expired at the author's death, the author may have had a contract with publisher X to pay royalties on sale of the book. But publisher Y had no such contract, and can sell the book without royalties. Therefore, publisher X has little incentive to sell the book at all, because they will have to pay royalties, they won't be able to publisher Y which does not have to pay royalties.