Can the work of a cryogenically preserved author pass into the public domain? ?

If an author was preserved through cryogenics, would his work still be under his own copyright, or would the copyright expire after a period after his preservation?

Legally, any person who is placed in cryogenics is considered dead.

Facilities will not even freeze someone these days unless they are already dead first.

Consequently, for copyright purposes, they are legally dead. There is still a period of several decades before their works enter public domain.

copyright laws haven't advanced that far yet. cryogenics is relatively new, so the law would say that since the author is technically alive, their work is still under copyright. its like being in a coma.

I believe that if the holder of copyrights dies, then whoever he chose to inherit that copyright permission stuff gets to decide whether it can be used or not. if he didn't previously choose someone to the rights after death, then it automatically goes to closest family.

I think that's what your talking about :-)

Copyrights don't automatically last as long as the artist is alive. So it doesn't matter whether they're frozen or not.