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Because far and away what happens most often isn't that your heirs heirs profit. What happens is the work simply vanishes forever, and everyone forgets about it.
But there's an understanding in the Constitution that we're all responsible to and for the commonweal - the public good. That part of being a society is that we all have obligations TO that society.
I suggested people Google Monsanto Farmer Lawsuits for a reason. No one apparently bothered, but had they done so, they'd have discovered that the seed company is going around and testing fields for occurrences of their patented genetically modified seed. When they find it (and they pretty much always "find" it) they sue the farmer for licensing fees. This isn't precisely copyright law, but it's very, very closely related -- and some of the laws involved ARE the same laws that define copyright.
But there's an understanding in the Constitution that we're all responsible to and for the commonweal - the public good. That part of being a society is that we all have obligations TO that society.
I suggested people Google Monsanto Farmer Lawsuits for a reason. No one apparently bothered, but had they done so, they'd have discovered that the seed company is going around and testing fields for occurrences of their patented genetically modified seed. When they find it (and they pretty much always "find" it) they sue the farmer for licensing fees. This isn't precisely copyright law, but it's very, very closely related -- and some of the laws involved ARE the same laws that define copyright.