Do you own the bits?


If I've collected thousands of dollars of file downloads, can my family leagally recover any of the cost from an estate sale when I've bit the dust?
bob_reynolds

Showing 1 response by tomcy6

I think that the major music groups, Sony, Universal and Warner, would like to eliminate the ownership model of selling music and change to a model where music is leased and the person who leases the music has no rights to it other than to listen to it. I think they will come down on anyone who tries to copy or store or sell the music like a ton of bricks as they have in the ReDiGi case.

So what's the problem when we have streaming services like Spotify and Pandora? Nothing at the moment, but I wouldn't expect these services to remain cheap once they're the only game in town.

I'm not a lawyer and I don't have any inside info. That's just my suspicion from having bought records from the majors and from watching how they deal with their artists and others for a very long time.