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> Copyright income varies from year to year. The French press puts the figure at 1.5 million a year until 2016. > From then on, the amounts would decrease, because in 2016, Boléro, Ravel's most popular work, falls into the public domain. Since then, she claims to receive between 200 and 500,000 euros a year.

Ravel didn't have kids, so a random unrelated person received the rights.

Very lucky.

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> Si ça revient dans le domaine privé et que ça rapporte des droits, je ne vois pas où est le mal

There is no harm, to her, but she seems to be very shortsighted with a gross feeling of entitlement. Make me sad.

If you read the article, it's not some random unrelated person. It's the last person in a long line of heirs. Basically, Ravel's brother got it, and then various people via marriage and death assumed it, ending in this woman

Various people -> the heirs in the family of the new wife of the former housekeeper.

That's a fairly weak link.

of the former housekeeper, -> of the former housekeeper of the brother of Ravel

>and then various people via marriage and death assumed it, ending in this woman

while not completely random, it's pretty random

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