Where Does Money For Dead Authors Go
What happens to the profits expressionless authors make?
Does it go straight to the publishing companies or to the authors remaining relatives?
Whenever I await at older books and notice out the author has been dead for quite a while, it only makes me wonder what happens to it.
Jane Austin, George Orwell, Shakespeare, etc.
If you had a choice, would you lot download it if information technology was easily bachelor or actually spend coin on it?
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level one
In some instances the author may accept given the copyright to someone. For case JM Barrie gave the copyright of Peter Pan to the Not bad Ormond Street Hospital. The hospital now receives all the profits and they as well control all sequels or adaptations made.
level ii
That is a really cracking thought. The profits are at least going somewhere that's going to help people.
level 1
Goes to the relatives (or whoever the author designated) if copyright is still in consequence. If information technology's public domain, it's fair game for publisher to impress and profit.
Somewhat related: Roberto Bolano wrote 2666 and then his kids would have some money afterwards he died.
edit: That Bolano anecdote was just something I remembered... Tin anyone back it up?
level 1
Information technology depends... if information technology's old enough to be in the public domain than yep it all goes to the publisher
level 2
Copyrights are inheritable, so any money earned from a book yet covered past copyright will go to the authors heirs.
level 2
to clarify though, the advantage would then come up from any footnotes, prefaces, translators notes, introductions etc that may have been added by the publisher and those people get paid. And so if i'chiliad going to read something in which i want a scholarly perspective from a particular expert then i would purchase. If you lot downloaded a copy costless of that kind of content than it wouldn't even count as piracy.
level 1
Nearly of the profit goes to the publisher. Some of it goes to the holder of the copyright. Neither of whom have done a damned thing in the creation of the work they sell. They are parasites, leeches, and blood-sucking worms.
level 1
I've e'er assumed information technology goes to the publisher. I have a book buying system where I purchase used books from dead authors and living authors who have long been compensated for their work, and I buy new copies of books by the other living authors.
level 2
That is a good thought, but I haven't seen a used book store in my area. :/
level 1
It kind of depends. A lot of authors have estates (usually family) that take on the role of the author when it comes to later editions, getting royalties, etc. For example, the Tolkien estate (I think his son Christopher is withal in accuse) sold the rights to make the movies afterwards Tolkien's expiry, and still collects royalties on books sold. The estate acts on behalf of Tolkien and makes the decisions he would have.
level 1
The copyrights are held by the writers heirs until they expire. I think information technology'due south 75 years later the date of publication. Shakespeare, Austen and and then forth, are thereby not protected past copyright. George Orwells later works might be.
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