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Because writing is a fundamentally different activity to a "normal" job. If you're in pretty much any other job, you get paid at the time you do the work. When you write a book, you don't get paid while you're doing it - all the income comes in, spread over a period of years, after it's finished.
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Then let's suppose instead that the heirs sell the house and get the money that way. Either way you appear to be saying (and please correct me if I've misunderstood you) that it's fine for heirs to benefit from property, but not from royalty payments. I see absolutely no difference between the two.
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Just as if you inherit shares in a company, you'll be paid dividends on those shares. What's the difference between inheriting shares, and inheriting a copyright?
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I thought the primary difference between intellectual copyright and other inheritables is that copyright only exists to further the public good and motivate the creation of new works?
![]() You can't own an idea -- but we'll give you distribution monopolies for a limited time if it will encourage you to think of new ones. Are you more likely to write a book in the knowledge that your heirs will benefit 70 years after your death, than you would be if you yourself got 28 years of royalty payments? Excuse me while I laugh... Why does copyright EVER end, if you keep trying to compare it to houses and shares in a company? |
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I've wondered why paintings and sculptures and the like aren't copyrighted .....
![]() It seems to me the same intellectual property arguments apply as for a book. In a book the thoughts/ideas are in written and/or pictorial format. In a painting or sculpture those thoughts and ideas are drawn/painted/chiselled etc. So why is it that the originator loses further financial benefit/entitlement on original sale? |
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Artists and sculptors retain copyright for their works even after the originals are sold.
ETA: The copyright for cover art in books is an example of this. For visual art the image is copyrighted, just as for books the words (not the physical paper and ink of the original manuscript) is copyrighted. Last edited by jhowell; 05-04-2016 at 07:21 PM. |
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