Originally Posted by kane

No. I want a 100% monopoly on the rights to my work for a set period of time. My example said 50 years which I think is fair. After that period if someone wants to use my work for educational, artistic or scientific study they are free to use it without paying me a dime and can do with it as they please as long as they don't use it to make money. If someone wants to use my work to make money (IE creating a 50th anniversary edition of my book or making a movie from my book) I would still be entitled to payment and still have control over it. If I am dead whoever I pass the rights to in my will would the control my monopoly.

To me this is fair. Those who want to use my work for school or art or whatever and are not planning on making a profit with it can do so, but I still get paid from those who want to use it for profit.