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This would create incentive to kill people
by Always42 4mo ago
This would create incentive to kill people
- ktm5j 4mo agoSo does life insurance.. but we still have that.
- fragmede 4mo agoWhat we don't have anymore though because of that, is tontines.
- dspillett 4mo agoThey are still around.
- account42 4mo agoAnd common if you count retirement funds.
- ralferoo 4mo agoNever heard of it, so just googled, but it's not obvious why these would be more preferable to annuities. As you get older above about 75, people tend to spend a lot less in general (assuming they don't need care support), so getting more money when you're unlikely to spend it anyway seems pointless. I'd speculate that the regular payments on annuities would therefore be higher than tontines because insurance companies would be able to factor in average life expectancy to the pricing more easily, rather than having to budget for possibly all the money continuing to be paid out to just one remaining person who happened to beat the odds and live well beyond 100 instead of the average around mid-80s.
- weberer 4mo agoI would change it to "the expected natural life of the author" which is their birthday + 85 years. Regardless of whether they actually are still alive past that date.
- giancarlostoro 4mo agoI would accept that as well, but crank it down to like 62 years since their date of birth, presumably by the time they would retire.
- fn-mote 4mo agoWhat? Think this through some more. Authors and artists are still creating after that age.
- AussieWog93 4mo agoSo if an 86 year old writes a book they can't copyright it?
- duzer65657 4mo agoThis can't work: life expectancy (of humans) can differ more than 30 years around the world, plus there are significant differences between men and women, and corporations - which often own copyright on work for hire - can live in perpetuity.
- ButlerianJihad 4mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes
- inferniac 4mo agonot really, when copyright disappears, so does the profit motive sure, you don't have to pay royalties, but any other publisher can now publish too
- cindyllm 4mo ago[dead]