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Originally Posted by rcentros
I do understand how the copyright system works. I just don't like it. If a writer's heirs can't profit from his creation, why should parasites be able to latch on to it?
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Why can't the author's heirs profit from the author's creation, even if it's in the public domain? Do you know how many copies of Shakespeare's plays are sold every day? If he had any living heirs, they could sell the plays just like anyone else can. The actual heirs may even be able to sell their copies for more, if they added some sort of extra content, like a story about what the author was doing while the book was being written, or something similar.
Shari