Sorry, you're wrong. An author's heirs can reclaim any rights that are transferred. See, for instance this: http://www.authorsguild.org/services/legal-service

Sorry, you're wrong. An author's heirs can reclaim any rights that are transferred. See, for instance this: http://www.authorsguild.org/services/legal-services/terminating-transfers/ http://www.authorsguild.org/services/legal-services/terminat... "What if the author is dead? When an author dies, his or her termination right, known as the “termination interest” is inherited as follows: if the author has no children, the surviving spouse inherits the author’s entire termination interest; if the author has children, they split the termination interest with the surviving spouse — the children take half, divided equally among them, and the surviving spouse takes half; if the author has children but no surviving spouse, then the children inherit the author’s entire termination interest (divided equally among them); if any of the author’s children is dead, that child’s interest is inherited by his or her own children (divided equally among them); majority action by the children of the author’s deceased child is required to exercise that child’s termination interest; if the author’s surviving spouse, children, and grandchildren are all dead, the author’s executor, administrator, personal representative, or trustee owns the author’s entire termination interest. The author’s heirs (as listed above), or their executors, who own and are entitled to exercise more than one half of the termination interest, either individually or together, may terminate." And in other comments, I addressed the works-for-hire issue, where the creator never owns the copyright to begin with. You can't terminate works-for-hire because legally the person who hired you is always already the author.