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Originally Posted by smerrall
Copyright taking care of your kids is one thing, but it gets ridiculous with the current laws. Lets take JD Salinger as a topical example. He wrote Catcher in the Rye in 1951 and very little since. That book took care of his wife and family for the following 60 years until his death. His now adult grandchildren may have children of their own and there will be perhaps another 3 generations earning money off a book written by their great-great-great-great-grandfather perhaps 125 years before their birth.
This is WAY more than taking care of your children and orders of magnitude more than those that framed the original laws intended.
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Strange. Maybe because I'm a writer, I view that as an awesome accomplishment and a great legacy. Books are not generally priced so high that the masses can't afford them. That he can provide any income for his grandchildren and possible great-grandchildren is a wonderful thing. If the books were sold somehow at some sort of huge price, I could understand people resenting the income. But at 25 dollars? Less than that? And no one is forcing anyone to buy it, it's not like an entitlement or tax.
He earned it. His children and grandchildren aren't likely to be completely spoiled from any income either. But again. I"m a writer. If he left them a 10 million dollar house, no one would think it odd that his grandchildren got some portion of the sale of it.