"In modern US copyright law, for works made by individuals (not works made by corporations), works are protected for the author’s entire life plus 70 years. When an author dies, the ownership of the copyright changes. Copyright is personal property, so the person who created the work could choose whom to pass the ownership of the copyright to. Copyright is treated no differently than other property. So ownership in a copyright can be passed to an heir or to a third party via a will. This makes sense because the…
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