It's not quite the same. When the children inherit a business, they usually have to do real work to keep it. Incompetence eventually destroys it. When the child

It's not quite the same. When the children inherit a business, they usually have to do real work to keep it. Incompetence eventually destroys it. When the children do it right, a business keeps on existing and creating some sort of benefit to society -- it keeps on doing whatever it does, employs people, etc. Meanwhile there's no effort involved in collecting royalties from your father's work, and no social benefits are provided by it.