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Zodwallop: wouldn't this discriminate against poor authors in favour of rich ones like Disney? Is that fair? (BookCat hears her elder brother saying in her head: "Kate, no one ever promised life would be fair!" as BC, when 15, cried out, "But it's not fair!!")
When to determine death? I'm sure some authors have been dead for years, they just keep walking around and pretending to be alive. I'm not refering to Cotard's Syndrome either. What about vampires who write novels? How do you determine their date of death?
Maybe publication date would be preferable, but without the option to extend. Then one would need to define "publication". Would including excerpts on a blog be the date of publication? Or perhaps the date of creation? Or the date it first goes on sale? How would this apply to free books which are later charged for?
It's a minefield. And so much fun.
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