How is this:
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
The money that someone makes from a sale of a book is not a salary. Copyright ending at the author's death is a major disincentive to continue writing.
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Copyright is a deal where the author gets a limited time exclusive right to copy a work. It gives the author incentive to create, and in exchange, the work eventually enters the public domain.
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And whether or not it is a “disincentive to continue writing” is entirely dependent on the author’s motivation. My experience is that artists’ motivations are more dependent on their art than their heirs.
And by the way, if "salary" can be defined as a reward for my labor, then "The money that someone makes from a sale of a book" most certainly is, just as the profit from a business is. Heirs inherit the business, and receive any profit they make from their own labor in that business.