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Originally Posted by hobnail
There's a push, probably not a big push, for something called the 100% inheritance tax. I heard part of a talk by Bill Gates's father; he and his son are pushing for it. As I understand it, you avoid having your money, estate, whatever taken by the government by willing to non-profits.
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I have no problem with people giving their wealth to charity. I have a big problem with people insisting that I give my wealth to charity or the government.
However, I look at copyright as a contract between the artist and society, not as the artist's personal property. Just like when I stopped working for my former employer, I stopped being paid, even though they were still using the code I wrote, my property was the payment that I invested. If an artist wants to have property to give to his or her heirs, then invest the money you earn during the limited duration of the copyright.