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Originally Posted by HarryT
Then let's suppose instead that the heirs sell the house and get the money that way. Either way you appear to be saying (and please correct me if I've misunderstood you) that it's fine for heirs to benefit from property, but not from royalty payments. I see absolutely no difference between the two.
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Because copyright is not property. The term intellectual property was coined to give the illusion that it is property, but it's not. In the United States, writers are given exclusive Right to their writings for a limited time. Property, on the other hand, has no such limitation on it.