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Originally Posted by axel77 View Post
Eitherway if the ancestor author makes money with copyrighted work during his life, they heirs sure have a right to claim that money. Now where to draw the line, just because he is dead? I mean how about the ancestor author being in deep comatose for years? Does he still get the money for his book and can bequeath it to his heirs until they turn of the machines?
Wouldn't this be an extremely paradox situation created by law?
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Originally Posted by axel77
Format C: please elaborate on this question.
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There is no paradox in it.
An author makes money during his life just like any other worker do.
His heirs have the right to keep that money (if the author didn't spend all of it), just like every other heir in the western world.
So, they will have the author's money.
In the situation of a comatose kept alive by machines: when those are turned off, the heirs lose the author's disability pension and the old-age one, if any.
In the same way they have to lose the Intellectual property rights. Their intellect has nothing to do with the dead author's work.
In my dreams, the copyright ends at the very moment a doctor signs a death certificate.