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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
1. Do you also believe that all other property belonging to the parent should be confiscated on their death?
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Actually, I do.
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I think people need to *get over the idea* that someone's kids are getting an unfair advantage over you be being able to inherit the rights to a book that mom or dad wrote.
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Why?
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The other reason to avoid a life-only copyright term is because it is too unpredictable.
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And does that matter? The author certainly doesn't care, because he will be dead by then.
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This means that the works of older or ill authors will be devalued because it's likely to go into PD sooner than the work of someone younger. This also makes investing much money in copyright riskier, since you may not want to invest much money buying the rights to the Jack Reacher series knowing that if Lee Childs is hit by a bus tomorrow, you've wasted all of your money because the works are all now PD.
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Well, so stop giving all the money to the publishers? It doesn't mean the work won't be available, on the contrary. Free works are alive and doing quite well on the interwebz.