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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Thanks! The name was on the tip of my tongue, but I just couldn't remember it.
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copyright only exists to encourage writers to keep writing. it's not intended to be some kind of eternal cash cow.
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But "To Kill a Mockingbird" has been precisely that for Ms. Lee. She's never written another word, and has lived (I believe) very comfortably for her entire life on the income from that one book. Should that money be taken away from her? Some people here seem to be suggesting that it should!