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If I have a long and successful life and decide to write my autobiography in my last year, my dependants should get almost nothing? What of the 95% manuscript I
by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
If I have a long and successful life and decide to write my autobiography in my last year, my dependants should get almost nothing? What of the 95% manuscript I had in my drawer that my wife or child gets published after I am gone?
The greater point that copyright terms are out of control and absurd, I wholly agree with. Family interests controlling rights of a windfall legacy (e.g. Tolkien etc) for decades is crazy. Fifteen or twenty five years after first publication seems nearer the right mark to me.
- DennisP 7y agoWhich is what we started with: a flat 14-year term to start with, regardless of whether the author is living or not, and a 14-year renewal allowed if the author is still living.
- lucb1e 7y agoThen you get people that are lucky (author died 1 week after renewal) or unlucky (the opposite). But instead of proposing another competing proposal, this is reasonable enough that I can get behind it.