> Copyright shouldn't be inheritable; it should expire on the author's death. That'd create some strange incentives though – if it looks like the author might

> Copyright shouldn't be inheritable; it should expire on the author's death. That'd create some strange incentives though – if it looks like the author might be dying (relatively) soon, people might opt to wait for a possibly premature expiration (both the author's and his/her copyrights) instead of paying to get access right now. In a particularly dystopic future, it might even create incentives to speed up an unfortunate author's demise just to get at the copyrights.