The smart move would actually be to make it all public domain before he dies. How soon before his death is up to him, but whenever he thinks it's eminent he should do it. Absolutely nothing is guaranteed post-mortem, although I suppose a really good will could fix that.
Cautionary tale for all authors. Don't leave your IP to your kids or any organization.
Just essentially relinquish all ownership of it on death and let anyone that wants to "make" something of it go for it.
Let the market decide and we'd be getting competition to all this contrived woke perversion of his work.
Dave Sim is planning to have his works automatically lapse into the public domain upon his death.
The smart move would actually be to make it all public domain before he dies. How soon before his death is up to him, but whenever he thinks it's eminent he should do it. Absolutely nothing is guaranteed post-mortem, although I suppose a really good will could fix that.
Yup. Many cases of last wishes and wills being overturned by courts on behalf of feuding heirs.