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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. 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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One would imagine that an author would have little use for the incentive to create once he's dead.