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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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.
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I don't agree. IMHO it's not reasnoable at all.
It's completely unfair.
If he was a carpenter, his heirs get only what he saved for them.
For writers, guitarists and pornstars it has to be the same.
Or is a porn movie star / director more valuable as an human being than a carpenter?
By the way how many great writers you know who died at 25?
I know dozens of hard-workers (carpenters, factory workers, building workers, sailors...) who din't make that age.
Is it fair to keep a lot of corporation privileges on an hypotetical case, while depriving the real ones from that same treatment?