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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I think that copyrights should expire when the creator of an original work is dead. CMV

All books, movies, TV shows, and video games should have their copyrights expire when the creator is dead. In circumstances where multiple people worked on it (it was created by a team, there are multiple authors, etc), the copyright shouldn't expire until all people who collect royalties for its creation are dead.

The reason I think this is that no one should profit off of a work that they did not have a hand in creating. George Orwell's descendants, for example, should not be profiting off of royalties from 1984 like they are.

**EDIT: I get it. if we did this, everyone would die.**
gpt
So if you work for fifteen years to create something incredibly valuable while being supported by your spouse, and you die the day before it comes to market (i.e., you never in your lifetime make a penny from it), your spouse shouldn't have any claim to the proceeds of your work?