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Originally Posted by eschwartz
...The important thing (from mine and others' perspective) is that copyright exists for no reason other than to incentivize creative work. From the standpoint of copyright, no one deserves a penny!...
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Yes this seems to be forgotten by many, copyright (and patents) is nothing at all to do with their holder's, nor their heirs "deserving" an income.
I suspect this misunderstanding is encouraged by authors (and, perhaps to a lesser degree by publishers) to serve the purpose of protecting what they think they deserve.
In that light, anything beyond life and, say, 14 years maximum if still alive then for example, seems excessive to me.
However, if a particular democracy considers authors deserve an income then that needs to be handled in a way other than copyright, however that would place them in some kind of elite income protected sector of the working population (undeserved, in my opinion).