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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8891300" data-attributes="member: 5948">Yep.  And if I'm a creative working, for example, in a salaried job as a graphic artist for a computer gaming company, I will also be working for a wage, only be paid for the time I work (erm, real-world exploitative conditions in the computer game development industry notwithstanding), and not have any ownership of the IP i create on company time.  Just like any other salaried worker.  But if I'm a creative work for myself, just like any other business owner I can work as hard as i like and create as much as i can, and my net worth will benefit directly from what i do.  And so I think it's reasonable for that value to exist past the death of the creator.  After all, if i devote my life to building up a business which I wholly own, then the business doesn't cease to exist the day I die either.It's not a simple question of course.  For instance, the 'death + X years' copyright rule is an awkward fit for art that was created on the clock by a salaried worker and which is owned from day 1 by a corporate entity that is effectively immortal.  But on principle, i reckon it's only fair that copyright should extend significantly past the death of the creator.</blockquote>