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Originally Posted by rogue_ronin
Virginia Heinlein is dead. Since 2003.
Heinlein has been dead since 1988.
They had no children.
All the profits on his books go to a trust. IE: a corporation. And they will go there for the next 60+ years.
This is about the worst example you could use to support any validation of rent-seeking behavior on the part of the culture-robbing inheritors of the creative.
I mean that in a friendly way. 
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Of course I didn't write the law so I am not offended. I was just indicating the idea behind the law. In my opinion the 28 years after it was written is the reasonable life of a copyright law. Of course if it is revised as was the case for Strangers in a strange land in the '90s it would still be under copyright today, even using this rule. As it is the start date would presumably be 1988 so I don't know where the 60+ comes from. For Canada is would seem to be about 30 years.
Dale