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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But the publisher alread is selling the book. Already has the website and listing. Already has the book available for sale. So it's a win-win for the publisher as there is no need to give away any profits.
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But they can't sell it for the same price they sold it during the author's lifetime. No one would buy a book in the public domain for the price of a newly released copyrighted book. So I imagine the profits from a dead author's work wouldn't be that large.
Anyway, yeah, maybe the better option would be either the life of the creator or 10 years after the first publication, whichever is longer. So if the author dies soon after writing the book, their family would still get something. But copyrights lasting decades after the author's death regardless of the death date are ridiculous.