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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Let's say you are 21. You write a novel. You reach the age of 72. Your work just became public domain. Some movie stuido decided to make a movie based on your work. The movie studio makes tons and tons of money from this movie. You are still alive, watching others make lots of money from your work and there is not a thing you can do about it. That is not fair in the least. You would be so pissed off.
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Just like the authors who wrote the books that you based your work on were pissed when your book took off - and they got nothing for it.
No artistic work is "created" - in the sense of nothing existed before and now something exists.
All artistic works are based on life and/or previous works of art. So the act of writing a book is like building something new from a set of Legos. An author does not create the Legos - he simply assembles them into something that no one has seen before. And if an artist creates something valuable from his Lego set, the Lego company gets, and is entitled to, nothing.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If the author is still alive, I do feel that he/she should be able to keep the copyright and make money on the work.
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I really don't think anyone has an issue with this idea. So long as the author has the option of releasing his work to the Public Domain prior to his death.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I voted for 30 years after death for the work to become PD.
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There is no justification for any copyright after death.
You cannot entice a dead person to write more books.