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Originally Posted by 4691mls
In many types of work, the person doing the work gets paid immediately and in full for the work that was done. The funds can therefore be used right away to feed the worker's kids, send the kids to college, set up a trust fund for them to inherit, or whatever.
Payment for a writer's work may be spread out over many years. Should the writer's kids not be able to receive the full benefit of their parent's work because the money came in over time instead of all at once?
I do think there should be some time limit on copyright - a while back we had a long thread discussing it and opinions on the proper length were all over the place. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ight=copyright |
The vast majority of professional authors get paid most of their money upfront. It's only the few books that earn out where the author gets royalties. Up until fairly recently, most fiction writers got paid by the word from newspapers or magazines. Money they got for the actual books was all gravy.