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I don't think anyone will ever live for another 70 years after their death.
by kenny_r 9y ago
I don't think anyone will ever live for another 70 years after their death.
- Joeboy 9y agoSure, and nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM either.
- loup-vaillant 9y agoCurrent copyright duration in the US is "life + 70 years". Nobody is alive after their death, because, well… they're dead.
- thinkMOAR 9y agoI don't know, after seeing "Be Right Back" episode of Black Mirror (episode 1 season 2), get really close to living after your death.
- loup-vaillant 9y agoWatch "San Junipero" (season 3). (Also, please don't spoil it, everyone.)
- thinkMOAR 9y agoOh that's why i get all these down votes i apparently spoiled it. Sorry about that, kind of assumed everybody saw it already lol All seasons watched here, great series.
- Joeboy 9y agoIn my head, I was making a clever remark that succinctly poked fun at HN discussions, Bill Gates, transhumanism and the difficulties of futurology. I may have been overly-optimistic.
- loup-vaillant 9y agoAh. Ok. Sorry. This may have worked with behavioural cues such as voice inflexion and body language.
- joelthelion 9y agoIf that makes you feel any better, I wanted to make the same joke as you :)
- madshiva 9y agoThen give right to your robot, make your robot life forever, profit?
- WillReplyfFood 9y agoIn a world filled with immortals, the bibles authors would invite us all to court.
- PurpleRamen 9y agoNo, but children and grandchildren might live on after their dead. Copyright after death is mainly for heritage-reasons, to close the gap to families who inherit valuable physical objects or land owning-rights.
- guelo 9y agoAnd incentivize other children to have dead parents who created financially successful copyrighted works.
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- josteink 9y agoSo your parents made stuff which due to a legal monopoly they were able to earn money and property from. Not only are you to inherit the money and property they earned. You are also to inherit the right to further make new money from this legal monopoly on something you have done nothing for at all. Sounds reasonable to me.
- simonh 9y agoSo if I create a work and die the day it’s published, my heirs should get nothing. How reasonable does that sound?
- jackvalentine 9y agoSounds reasonable to me. But I sense you and I won’t agree there so why don’t we compromise with 1 year exclusive rights for heirs after the author’s death?
- matte_black 9y agoHow about if the work is never published while you’re alive, but then your heirs publish it. They get lifetime rights now?
- shirian 9y agoYou are quite right. I apologize for misremembering the copyright laws.