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Can someone explain to me how copyright being valid after the original owner's death progresses healthy competition? What benefit does it have?
by searchableguy 7y ago
Can someone explain to me how copyright being valid after the original owner's death progresses healthy competition? What benefit does it have?
- icebraining 7y agoPeople work not just on their own behalf, but also of their descendants. Knowing that your spouse or kids will keep getting royalties provides an extra incentive to produce new work, much like people create businesses or make investments to leave as inheritance.
- OrgNet 7y agohow often does it profit large corporations and not their descendants?
- icebraining 7y agoRarely; it usually profits either both or neither.
- rocqua 7y agoIt incentivizes artists to create art, because their work will support their heirs.
- OrgNet 7y ago"... support their heirs" , but often some large corporations
- someguyorother 7y agoIt doesn't; it's just there because Disney has enough power to make it so.