On the Doing of Needful Things: the will
Nov. 30th, 2023 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elisemIt's unexpectedly odd, this doing of one's will and being asked by one's lawyer to give an itemized list of all one's creative properties. For one thing, that's a long list and I am absolutely sure I'm forgetting things and leaving stuff out. But the oddest bit is how it feels like a retrospective collection or exhibit or something. Were it not for the fact that the show belongs to an older generation than mine, I'd half expect "This Is Your Life!" to pop out of the woodwork at any moment.
Also, seeing through-lines in one's own work is decidedly trippy, I gotta say.
Have you made a will yet?
(I partly want one so that there will be someone who can grant permission to reprint certain things for free to people and organizations who ask. And this is how to do that, so I'm doing it. But mostly I want it so that my sister is not stuck cleaning out all my stuff, and that J is not burdened with what would be bureaucratic/paperwork/communication/cleaning hell for him.)
Also, seeing through-lines in one's own work is decidedly trippy, I gotta say.
Have you made a will yet?
(I partly want one so that there will be someone who can grant permission to reprint certain things for free to people and organizations who ask. And this is how to do that, so I'm doing it. But mostly I want it so that my sister is not stuck cleaning out all my stuff, and that J is not burdened with what would be bureaucratic/paperwork/communication/cleaning hell for him.)
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Date: 2023-11-30 07:01 pm (UTC)(For everyone else, I just got my own will sorted out earlier this fall.)
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Date: 2023-11-30 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-12-01 06:16 pm (UTC)Do-it-yourself wills can handle things while you're finding a professional. They also can serve as excellent practice to figure out what a more complicated will should cover, once you find a lawyer to work with. (And hey, if you decide the simple DIY one covers things adequately, then you're already finished with the work. Yay!)
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Date: 2023-12-01 07:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-12-02 04:46 am (UTC)I should have figured you'd already be on it. You are a very sensible person that way.
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Date: 2023-12-02 07:56 am (UTC)Well ...
Date: 2023-12-04 09:25 am (UTC)*laugh* Completely impossible for me. That is decades of works written, tens of thousands of pieces. There is no way to find them all. Just trying to list the ones I have would be a monumental task.
Re: Well ...
Date: 2023-12-04 05:55 pm (UTC)I forwarded them the wordage from Neil Gaiman's will template designed for creative people:
https://files.neilgaiman.com/SIMPLEWILL.pdf
3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Will, after my death, my executor shall not distribute any
part of my estate consisting of (a) ideas, manuscripts, books, drawings, pictures, scripts, playscripts, treatments,
stories, poetry, dramas, or anyother fiction or nonfiction writings, whether published or unpublished, created in
whole or in part by me (collectively “Writings”), (b) rights to proceeds from any Writings, rights to publish,
exploit, license, or sell any Writings, contracts for the publication, exploitation, licensing, or sale of any
Writings, and any derivative or secondary rights in or to the Writings or derived from the Writings, as well as
(c) rights to any performances, recordings, readings, or dramatizations by me and my name and likeness
(collectively “Creative Property”),but instead shall transfer all of theCreativePropertyto the special trustees
named in this Will, to hold in trust in perpetuity (to be known as the “Creative Property Trust”), as follows:
Re: Well ...
Date: 2023-12-05 09:21 am (UTC)