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Old 04-28-2009, 01:51 PM   #23
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So, from what you say, he's an editor of sorts, and partly biographer and critic? I can see how there's a compelling argument for him to take some recompense for that work, but I wonder how the rest of the copyright profits are shared out. How many are getting paid for nothing more than a fortunate bloodline?
Loads of people get paid for a fortunate bloodline, some of them even become peers of the realm or kings and queens etc... but what can you do about it? We can't surely suggest that any estate left on a person's death reverts to the state can we?

I for one would like to leave my children a little to get them started in life. Now, I'm not likely to be in the Tolkein/Rowling bracket (unless the market for memoirs by short, fat, bald software testers really takes off) but, even so, I'd be pretty cheesed off if anything I do manage to scrape together is denied to my children when I'm gone.
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