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Re:In 'Sherlock Holmes' Rights Dispute, Conan Doyle Estate S... by rtpg on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @12:00AM (#8140934)
If you built a house one month after you died, would you expect it to be given to the state?

IP is more about property than a job, I think.

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Re:In 'Sherlock Holmes' Rights Dispute, Conan Doyle Estate S... by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @01:18AM (#8141142)
> If you built a house one month after you died,

Nice trick, that.

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Re:In 'Sherlock Holmes' Rights Dispute, Conan Doyle Estate S... by ak217 on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @01:58AM (#8141221)
Most of it, yes, in the form of estate taxes. Unless the heir is a spouse.

Hereditary transfer of IP is a bizarre anachronism.

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Re:In 'Sherlock Holmes' Rights Dispute, Conan Doyle Estate S... by JulianK on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @02:25AM (#8141300)
John Oliver did a bit in his wealth gap segment where he mentioned that, in the US, estate taxes are exempt even to children on amounts up to 5 million, and up to 10 million if it's a couple leaving the amount to their children.

General searching around turns up these numbers here and there as well. Assuming that is in fact true, _most_ people shouldn't be giving up anything in estate taxes.

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Re:In 'Sherlock Holmes' Rights Dispute, Conan Doyle Estate S... by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @11:28AM (#8142937)
> Most of it, yes, in the form of estate taxes.

Estate taxes in the US are 40% and the first ~$5 million in value is exempt. So its impossible to lose most of any estate to estate taxes in the US, and very few estates (0.14% [1]) are subject to any estate tax at all.

[1] http://www.cbpp.org/files/estatetaxmyths.pdf

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