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Originally Posted by Format C:
No. It's not that.
I'm not preventing the author's son from getting the house, the bank account, and the car when daddy dies.
Simply he won't become the author of daddy's book when it happens...
And that's exactly what you'll obtain if you give him daddy's "rights" on the book.
Doctor's son won't be a doctor by birth.
So, why writer's son has to live as an author if he's not?
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Passing along copyright doesn't make son the author. It simply passes along the rights to any
earnings from the book while the rights last.
Whether or not son becomes an author is up to son. But you agree son can inherit the bank account. With copyright inherited, he gets income earned by Dad's books that go
into the bank account.
If Dad has currently selling titles generating royalties when he dies, what happens to the money? If copyright ends upon the author's death, son doesn't get it. The publisher keeps it. Is that what you prefer?
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Dennis