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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
But by that logic, you wouldn't allow the children to inherit money, houses or anything else--because they had no hand in producing those things. The author probably feels pretty strongly that she wants her children to benefit from her work--whether that is passing along money or copyright to be used as the children are able. In some cases this may mean the children are able to sell film rights--what if the author dies young? What if the children are small and need the income from the books to survive? Moral suddenly becomes necessity.
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What about the other 99+% of the people out there?
They don't get royalties for their work. How do they take care of their kids?
Maybe I'm just a blockhead, but going forth in the world and making one's own way in the world is one of the joys of life. Should you deny your children's right to make their own life, good or bad; to be able to say "
I did this with my
own abilities"? I've known several multi-millionaire's children my age, and their greatest concern has been to find a way to show that
they had talent too, and were not just propped up by Grandpa's wealth....