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Chris wrote "If you look inside books lately the
copyright is not held by the
writer, but by a corporation (of the writer's ownership). As
corporations are legal 'persons' but do
not 'die' in the usual sense, does this mean the copyright is
forever?" Yes, Chris, is does mean the copyright last
forever, as long as the corporation exists. This assures the writer's
estate will maintain the copyright for future generations to receive any and all
royalties due to the copyright holder, particularly if there is some sort of
sequel to their original writing, such as "Gone with the Wind" and it's later
sequel, etc. It is a good tool especially for estate planning. We
have actually had the orchard here put into a family trust so that the it
will be passed on to future generations of the family. It also shields
those future generations from estate/inheritance taxes.
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