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Re:Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done by CRConrad on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @06:27PM (#29802475)
Reminds me of a precursor to life insurance, if only I could remember what it was called... Kind of a lottery / pool, all participants paid into it and the last survivor inherited the lot. IIRC.

Come to think of it, reminds me of life insurance: that's also a financial instrument the value of which depends on the lifespan of a specific named person.

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Re:Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done by CRConrad on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:04PM (#29828251)
Unless there's something even closer to what I was warbling on about, it was probably a tontine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine
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