Neil Gaiman has posted up some information on his journal including a link to a PDF you can print out to create a template for a literary will. Basically, motivated by the recent death of his friend, the writer John M Ford, he has talked with a lawyer friend about how writers (and artists, photographers, sculptors etc for that matter) should arrange instructions for their creative estate, as apart from the more common sort of will where you say who inherits your CD collection or your rare cases of stuffed Tasmanian fauna. It is good advice and although the PDF his legal friend has drawn up (which you can print out freely) applies to America it can also function to help creators in other countries plan out who they want to control their work after they are gone.
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