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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I think it's a great idea. Their descendants can inherit any proceeds from their life, rather than the ownership of the copyright.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I think I'd prefer a flat timespan rather than a lifetime-dependent one. The two flaws I see with the lifetime-dependent one are:

    • It can give wildly different opportunity to the rightsholder depending on how old they are and what their random life circumstances happen to be. A 20-year-old author could have 80 years' hold on their work whereas a 70-year-old one could have just 10. Unless Truck-kun randomly gets involved and sends that 20-year-old author into another world a day after he published.

    • It creates an incentive to assassinate popular authors.

    It also creates complexity for work-for-hire situations where a corporation owns a copyright, though that's already a special case so one could continue handling it separately.

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