It depends.
Consider someone who writes a great novel at age 25, and then gets killed in a road accident just after it took off, film rights, etc, etc. I'd think it quite reasonable for the royalties for several decades to go to the heirs.
Then consider an author who enjoys the royalties from a great novel and adaptions for (say) 70 years, and dies at 95. I don't think it reasonable for the heirs to go on collecting royalties for another 70 years.
There are two problems with current copyright - the length of the certain term (70 years after death of author), but also the uncertainty of the term - anywhere from 70 years to 150 years or more.
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Originally Posted by Hellmark
I just have problems with it with how things extend for long after the person is dead.
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