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Hmm, wasn't aware of that, as I said comics aren't my thing. That probably means the artists are doing "work for hire" rather than creative work (in the legal sense) and the company retains all copyrights. Doesn't really change the fact that it's under copyright and still producing cash years...

This is actually part of the problem in my opinion. Copyright law was put together when novels were the main action and long-lived movie cinematic universes weren't even a twinkle in the producer's eye. A book needs a fairly different copyright model than, say, software that's going to be...

There's two reasons. First there's the length of labor. A carpenter can churn out a table in an afternoon, a couple days at the outside. A novel takes months at the fastest, often a year or more. Jim Butcher was considered a machine for putting out two novels a year for several years...