Where Will Your Copyright Go When You're Gone?
Neil Gaiman writes on the importance (and ease) of setting up a will to take care of your literary estate.
The fact is that your copyrights are likely to outlive you. Unless you take special action, they may well end up in the hands of people who do not share your beliefs or philosophy.
But this isn’t just an issue for writers—software is also subject to copyright. Programmers need to take care of this stuff too.