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Originally Posted by Pardoz
Can't speak for anybody else who voted that way, but for me I don't have any particular problem paying the estate of a dead author. Moral questions of monetary compensation don't really apply (other forms of 'compensation' for the dead are between you and your religious beliefs) but self-interest comes into play: if I buy the book, the estate is more likely to release the rest of the author's backlist, therefore I buy the book, all other things being equal.
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But if the copyright rules would be Death of the Author + 0, there wouldn't be an estate and the books would be in public domain. So, the backlist would be freely available.