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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Authors deserve to have both compensation and control over their creations, but once they've shuffled off, they have no need of either.
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I probably would have thought the same way before I had a family to provide for, and before I saw how important it was to my mom to provide for her family. If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, I wouldn't want the public seizing control of my intellectual property rights sooner than I'd have been entitled to anymore than I'd want them seizing the rest of my estate from my heirs (same logic, I'd 'have no need' of any of it anymore, right?) A fixed time period serves living authors, estates, and corporate ownership equally. Gee...so far this thread is making me MORE set in my opinion!