Uh huh.
On patents, i'm not sure where i stand - but author's life plus *something* (not necessarily seventy years) is quite reasonable for books and other such IP - to impose such limits as you advocate is stealing from authors' heirs.
My brother is a best-selling SF author. You're saying that, if he died tomorrow, his daughters should get nothing from his writings beyond their mid-twenties.
But i'm sure you would have no problem, if he were a builder who put up apartment houses, with him leaving them to his heirs who would continue to collect revenue from them in perpetuity.
Intellectual Property is just as much property as "real" property.
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