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Originally Posted by Format C:
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.
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Stieg Larsson was published posthumously. It wasn't his kids who benefited, but it would have been if he had any. His works went to his next of kin, father and brother. I am sure that they appreciate copyright law. As for a few hundreds, most best selling authors had kids - they would have benefited to some degree. I inherited the rights to some potentially extremely valuable intellectual property which I have chosen not to publish until several people who would be hurt by publication have passed on.