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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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
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With copyright inherited, it's not at all daddy's money to be passed by: it's the money daddy would earn in the future if he wasn't dead.
(I hope I said it correctly... Sorry if not...)
About selling titles: of course the publisher still sells them and earn from them, but from that unfortunate day on, every other publisher can reprint the book and give it away for a lower price.
Even in Mobipocket for free.
The book and the file are from now on sold as physical goods, at any price. But everybody in the world can do it.
If the publisher still keeps the same cover price, as long as people agree to pay it, he gets more money.
What happens now at the time of death + 70?
