Shame to sell it to them but it is their right. Intellectual property shouldn't fall into public domain, the same way your other property shouldn't. Unless of course you were dead with no heirs decades ago and some company just happened to seize your rights like with Robert E. Howard.
Shame to sell it to them but it is their right. Intellectual property shouldn't fall into public domain, the same way your other property shouldn't. Unless of course you were dead with no heirs decades ago and some company just happened to seize your rights like with Robert E. Howard.