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Originally Posted by HarryT
If I start up a furniture-making business, my familiy can continue to benefit from that indefinitely after I die. Royalies are very like share ownership in many ways - both are "future income for past work".
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Well, the business is passed on, but possible not the profits. For example, if it were a one man furniture making business and the funiture maker dies, certainly the business can still exist, but there is nothing to sell.
Even if it were a furniture shop. The shop still has to be run. It still has to produce furniture. Some one has to run it, make sales, manage the workers... train them. The business won't magically run if the dead owners work isn't replaced by someone else.
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EDIT: Although I have to admit I have no idea what this has to do with copyright terms.