"Die Hard" actor Burce Willis was, considering a lawsuit against Apple to grant the rights to his digital music collection after his death to his daughters, Scout, Tallaluh and Rumer, said the Daily Mail.
Willis discovered that even though he spent thousands of dollars building up on his music library he does "own" it but is "borrowing" it from Apple. He considered legal action against the technology giant that would let him pass-on his collection to his girls.
Willis wanted to give his iTune collection to his daughters in his will, but with their licensing policy allows the company to "freeze the iTunes accounts of those it believes are passing on music to others."
"Lots of people will be surprised on learning all those tracks and books they have bought over the years don't actually belong to them. It's only natural you would want to pass them on to a loved one," said Chris Walton, attorney to the Daily Mail.
Willis is a passionate supporter of digital music rights. He sings and plays with a blues band once in a while reported AppleInsider.
Though this has been reported by various sites, MacRumors said that "Curiously, we can find no restrictions on transferability of iTunes Store music content in the lengthy terms and conditions. While Apple is clear that apps sold through both the Mac App Store and the iOS App Store are distributed under a nontransferable license, the current version of the document makes no reference to any such licensing and transferability restrictions for other types of content such as music."
Willis's wife, Emma Hemming tweeted saying "it's not a true story."
CNET raised the question of "who really owns the rights to digital content purchased and stored on the web."
"Very few of us have any significant portion of our wealth tied up in such digital goods," Tim Worstall, Forbes contributor said. "But it's obviously going to be something that looms larger in years to come. And I have a feeling that we're going to need some legal clarification on who really does own what after someone's death."
