(urth) OT: R.A. Lafferty estate sale

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Marc Aramini" <marcaramini at yahoo.com>


> wow, so you can just buy the rights to everything he wrote? Insane.  It 
> would
> peeve me no end if I had a wealthy acquaintance that I despised in life 
> buying
> up my life's work, just a scenario I see as a possibility in cases like 
> this.
> Crazy.  Wonder how much it will go for?  Be cool to say, I own all 
> Lafferty's
> work, but it just doesn't seem just that a man's intellectual legacy is 
> for sale ...

At the end of the day, if it's for sale it's because the author sold it or 
left it to someone who is selling it.  Copyright initially belongs entirely 
to the author, and it's up to him to choose what to do with it.

- Gerry Quinn