Thread: Petition to reduce US copyright to 28 years
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Old 07-17-2012, 05:26 AM   #315
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Originally Posted by DarkScribe View Post
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.
The request was for a few hundred authors. But Stieg Larsson did not die young and he probably would have hated that his parent and brother got the money so a pretty bad example anyway.
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