alt Hacker NewsPeople do care about income streams for their descendants or charitable organizations etc. So it’s not completely ineffective.
What’s broken is extending copyright after a work was already created. But that’s true even if the creator was still alive.
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eikenberry • today at 9:02 PM
I think the OP was pointing out that writers will write even without monetary recompense.
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ekianjo • today at 9:57 PM
> People do care about income streams for their descendants
Maybe worth reading more about Anne Frank. She did not write to make a buck
> But that’s true even if the creator was still alive.
The foundation even tried to double dip on this by claiming Otto Frank as a co-author right before copyright expiration, three decades after his passing.