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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
What if I die young and have small children? My intent SURELY would be to provide for them. Make it PD too early and those kids could end up on government welfare, when in fact, a parent had the means to provide for them...until that parent died...and copyright expired. I really believe that was the original intent of life Plus. It didn't/doesn't necessarily have to be life plus 70 (as that would be most of the adult life of the child) but what a horrific nightmare for a parent to imagine that her books/income would not be used to support her 3 year old daughter after she died.
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Can you please name a few hundreds authors out of the millions who are published, who actually did die young leaving kids behind and had published books good enough to make some money(*) which generated revenues only after the author's death?
(*) just for comparision, let's define "some money" as the amount that a normal average employee or worker in the same country would have earned in the time from the start of writing to the untimely death of the author.