Lot of beloved authors are having very silly opinions about copyright on this website.

The rule is socially constructed to give you compensation in proportion to how much your work is liked. And it's a good rule. But it does (and should) go away after some time.

— Alan Cole (@AlanMCole) March 4, 2021

Yeah, it was absurd. So many of them took it as self-evident that their grandchildren should earn money from works the authors had published.

I wish I had the temerity and arrogance to think I should still be getting paid for work I did in 1995! And still be paid for that after I am long dead. How does your brain get so broken?