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Old 07-10-2008, 08:37 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
An author's income from his work forms his "estate". Suppose an author is married, and dies; is there really anything wrong with their wife/husband and children being able to continue receiving income from the sale of the author's books? If the person had bought shares in a company, they could be passed on in the author's will (and shares are just as "ephemeral" as "rights" to a book). Why single out "intellectual" work as not been permitted to benefit the dependents of the author? It just seems wholy unreasonable to me.
Will the surviving spouse continue to produce new work by the deceased author? Will the surviving spouse continue to do so for 70 years after the death of the author?

This is the point of copyright, to encourage a creator to make more. A dead creator cannot make more and thus does not need copyright protection.
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