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Originally Posted by stustaff
If a man built a house and sold if for a $10 million dollar profit or just made $10million in his lifetime, Should that money go to his chindren and their children and their children and perhaps another 3 generations all earning interest from something that their great great great grandfather did 125 years earlier?
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No, you have the analogy wrong.
That man built the house, sold the rights to the house to somebody else who rented it out. And now his children and his children's children will still get paid by the original buyer. Even though the house has been renovated several times.
The copyright laws in their current form are ridiculous. In this day and age, ages above 90 are more a rule rather than an exception. And how much will an author really lose if it would be changed from life + 70 to first published + 70?