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Originally Posted by hobnail
Interestingly, I only feel this way about inheritance with copyrights. For investments, land, money in the bank, etc. I'm fine with them inheriting that. I agree with what someone said in another thread about books being a part of our cultural heritage and therefore would prefer to see them move into the public domain as soon as possible.
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The cultural heritage thing might hold more weight if the books were not (for the most part) already available to you regardless of copyright. If your culture is so important to you - and you can't afford to buy your own copy - there are things called libraries and they let you borrow a copy for free! And you don't even have to wait ... except maybe for a little while for the very popular books.