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Originally Posted by Format C:
I'm with you, here.
And I'm paying you for your work, I assure you...
Still, I don't understand why mi grand-grand-children have to pay your grand-grand-children 90 years after your death for a work they didn't do.
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The rights to their work were part of their estate. Just like heirs would be entitled to income generated from an inherited business, rental property, or patent, they are entitled to income generated from those inherited rights if they chose to sell them or continue the deceased's contract with a publisher. Many times an author's work means so much to their heirs that they want to keep control of it. Sometimes not, and then it goes into the public domain.