Like if an author had a five year old why shouldn’t the kid get royalties if their parents is in an accident?
Like I said, all it does is prioritize the desires of the dead over the needs of the living. It’s not justified.
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spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 hours agoMinor children of artists benefitting from their parents work is one possible reason. Like if an author had a five year old why shouldn’t the kid get royalties if their parents is in an accident?
It should be short enough that the child of an artist shouldn’t be benefitting for decades, but there are cases where an untimely death would screw over the artist’s family and allow the publisher to make all the money themselves.
The current setup is awful, but there should be at least a period of time after their death for rights to be inherited that is no longer or possibly shorter, than a reasonable time frame like a decade or two.
obvs@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
SaltSong@startrek.website 4 hours ago
In this example, the child is living, and has needs.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
In the perfect world, the kids should have UBI regardless on if their parents are authors. But yes the kids should be inheriting the remainder of the fixed-term copyright.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
So you would rather the publisher make the money instead of giving it to the family of the artist for a short period of time.
What terrible priorities.
wisely@feddit.org 3 hours ago
I think they mean it would become public domain and nobody would make money off of it. Books could be downloaded or used for free without a publisher.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
People make money off of the public domain all the time. A publisher currently publishing a book when an artist dies would have one less expense as they continued to rake in the money.
bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 1 hour ago
This happens all the time to people who don’t receive royalties. Parents die, kids get nothing. End of.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 34 minutes ago
You might expand that to “society continuing to allow children to suffer because their parents are unable to care for them is a larger issue than the question of copyright.”
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Generally they earn a somewhat stable income over time as an employee. Most artists do the vast majority of their work unpaid and then try to make money off of all that work afterwards.
Plus companies wouldn’t be negatively affected by this change, so it is just punishment for individuals.