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An employee is paid for the hours of work done. It's quite different than with a book, where the rights holder only gets paid for how many books are sold. An editor wouldn't have any claim on the copyright, they've been paid for their work. If copright ended with the death of the author, there would be reduced incentive to create. Ulysses Grant wrote his memoirs near the end of his life to make sure his family didn't starve. If copyright ended at death, there would have been no incentive to write his memoirs.
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