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Originally Posted by HarryT
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?
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Everything is wrong about it.
Do miner's widows get percentages from jewelry sales? Designer's heirs do.
That's unfair.
sic et simpliciter.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Think it that way: what if somebody did put eternal "copyrights" on the alphabet? Try to figure the consequences.
It's not so absurd: they are now putting "copyright" on living organisms...
