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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
4. The author is dead (~30%)
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I was surprised at the level of support for the income of dead people. Two thirds didn't check this as a fair reason to take a copy. Perhaps we should make up some bumper stickers that say "Illegal copying of dead authors' works is a grave crime".
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Here you might want to take into account how long the author has been dead. He/she might have died young and the royalities are needed to support their families. Or they died before the publisher had a chance to get even on their investments.
In that way 50 years are not unreasonable, the children would be able to take care of them selves and it's unlikely that their would be a widow/er depending on that income.