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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 think it depends on what your argument is. The only motivation I can see is to encourage production but people do not expect to die in road accidents so I am not sure it holds in this case. Maybe for authors that are very old.