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Originally Posted by brecklundin
Not sure I completely agree. Say someone, maybe a relative, starts a business. The business becomes a success. The person dies and leaves the business to you. Should you loose all rights associated with the products, names and what not that belong to the business?
I see writers in the same light.
Or say a writer has a 1,000,000,000 book best seller of all time. Then 3yrs after writing it, the writer dies...then 
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It's not at all the same thing.
Copyright and Trade Marks are completely different things.
But, tell me, please.
When the carpenter dies after the billionth table hand made by him, what happens to his heirs?
Why should a writer be someway "superior" to a carpenter?
Does he belong to a superior race? or is the other less than human?