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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Heirs' traditionally have done a poor job of guarding literary estates. The Tolkien family is the exception that proves the rule. The decision to publish an early draft of To Kill a Mockingbird as a long lost novel and this are pretty good examples of why for most of the history of copyright protect up to the time of the Mouse, copyright was much more limited in time period.
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The decision to publish "Go Set a Watchman" was not that of the heirs, but of the author. It would still have its full copyright term, no matter what that term was.