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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But I also feel that once this 30 years after death has happened, any work that that author has written should be fully pD. And that includes someone else finding an unfinished manuscript, making it be finished and publishing it. So once the 30 years after death happens, that too becomes PD. So all those Tolkien books published after his death (even though they should have stayed unpublished) , would also go PD at the same time as the other books.
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This is one of the few cases where I think copyright should exist after the death of the original author. Otherwise, no one would bother finding and editing these manuscripts (and we would never have had H. Beam Piper's
Fuzzies and Other People). But the copyright in this case should be shared with the editor.