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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Getting back to books, a lot of great authors didn't have children (Brontės) or have no surviving descendents (Shakespeare). I don't see who today could speak for them. Where survivors exist, there's no real reason to believe they would respect, or even know, the author's preferences for how to deal with his or her literary property. I don't even see who could say whether Hemingway would want his stuff DRM'd.
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I can imagine how that would go. The bill template would generously give the royalties to the government, for later blame shifting and conspiracy theories about the government plotting to seize all royalty money.