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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I'm fairly sure that Mark Twain, if asked about the "rights" of his distant descendants (or, in this case, a foundation serving as his literary executors), would have said something like "Tell them to write their own damned books."
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Nope. Mark Twain was on the side of perpetual copyright.
http://www.bpmlegal.com/cotwain.html
although it's possible that he might have had a different opinion if free distribution without publishers had been possible in his time.