On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 01:34:33AM -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:
If there is a documented assignment of rights this
should pose no
problems. In the long term, however, we need to be more open and less
bureaucratic when rights are claimed by inheritance. Books that were
written long ago are often forgotten when wills are written, or if there
is an intestacy. Things can get worse when we are two of three
generations removed, or there are large families.
Ec
That describes this case rather well. Granddad dies, leaving everything
to his third wife, my step-grandmother. She dies, leaving everything to
her daughter, my half-aunt. She then enters a convent, after assigning
all copyrights to me.
Those two previous wills would be a pain to look up. I have my
half-aunt's assignment, which is good enough for the publishers to send
me the royalties, but will it be enough for the hardcore fetishists?
The $64 question, of course, is how much insulting Hell do we expect
someone to go through to earn the privilege of giving us a gift?
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