[ SECRET POST #5561 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5561 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It’s not quite the same thing, but it’s not wholly distinct either.

OP doesn’t sound like they wouldn’t have a problem with it either, because they didn’t bring up families of deceased authors or family estate copyright anywhere in their secret. The fact that they never brought it up, and treated it like the only people that benefit off an author’s works after the author dies is the predatory publishing system and “whoever now holds the rights to something they didn’t create” means that I don’t know why you seem so sure OP would be fine or not with paying in the case of the money going to the the surviving family.

Honestly, the way they phrase “whoever now holds the rights to something they didn’t create”, and the fact that they put that right next to predatory publishing industry makes it seem like they very well might be against the family getting the money. Considering the family didn’t create the books, and OP seems to think that’s the be all end all to who should get the money. And they’re not wrong in thinking that when it comes to the publishing industry, and how probably shouldn’t get money from works they didn’t create once the author is dead. But comparing surviving family members to predatory business people, even if it may have been accidentally implied? I’m not a fan of that phrasing.

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Although when I talk the predatory publishing industry and how they shouldn’t get money off of the works of deceased authors, I’m of course only talking about the higher ups in the company. The people who had nothing to do with the creation of the books in any way shape or form, but still get money from them because they run the company. I’m not talking about the people who work for the publishing houses that did have a hand in making the book. Sure, they may not have created the story, that was still the author. But without them, the actual book never would have been published and shipped out. I believe they still deserve to be paid for their work even if the author has died.