Email Newsletters/Alerts | Text Alerts | Mobile Apps | RSS

Online music purchases only a 'license to listen'

Images

(Getty Images)

Print Story

Published: 9/04/2012 1:18 pm

Updated: 9/04/2012 1:28 pm

ATLANTA (CNN) -- Rumors are flying that Hollywood actor Bruce Willis is considering suing technology giant, Apple.

According to British tabloid 'The Daily Mail', he's doing it over the rights to his private iTunes account. He reportedly wants to make sure his online music collection goes to his daughters, when he dies.

Under iTunes' current terms and conditions, when users pay for songs and albums, they are essentially only 'borrowing' them. Other online music retailers, such as Amazon and Google's Android Marketplace, impose similar legal restrictions on downloads.

Though Willis's wife has reportedly dismissed the lawsuit claims- it raises some serious questions about what happens to the products we own online, when we die.

CLICK HERE to check out the CNN article "What you should know about iTunes' 56-page legal terms."

Print Story

7 Comment(s)

Comments: Show | Hide

Here are the most recent story comments.View All

The views expressed here do not necessarily represent those of News 4 WOAI (WOAI.com)

Dodie Lee - 9/4/2012 9:34 PM

3 Votes

Report User

This whole business is just a bunch of nonsense anyway. The only music people get from those Web sites is just loud and fast rock and roll and yang yang music used for dancing. Dancing is a sin, and so is listening to vulgar music. If you want to listen to good music, go to church. It's free, and God and Jesus owns those songs. Unless you go to the Church of Christ, it comes with good piano and organ music, and you don't have to listen to a bunch of loud guitars, banjos, and drums that echo all over tarnation.

Grumpy - 9/4/2012 4:28 PM

1 Vote

Report User

Who in their right mind would buy the crappy sounding music from iTunes. Quality is horrible. Buy the CD and own it for life. Amazon offers a slightly higher quality than iTunes at a compatible price. There are plug-ins for windows media player to control iPod devices so you don't even have to install iTunes (except the iPod must be initially activated with iTunes - I've borrowed systems from others to activate.)

OMGBBQ - 9/4/2012 3:38 PM

0 Votes

Report User

"Stolen music sounds better" - T-shirt...

preexisting - 9/4/2012 3:16 PM

1 Vote

Report User

The impatience of people . . .did no one ever read the terms of "purchase"? I have to hand it to the marketing folks, they finally figured out how to sell nothing to the public and make billions of dollars in the process. Do you think this will affect sales from the I-store?

Kenoscope - 9/4/2012 2:28 PM

2 Votes

Report User

Another way to steal your money. I still have 45's, 78's, 33's Reel to reel tapes and cassettes with my purchased music. Let then delete that! Digital music 'purchase' is simply another way to steal from people trying to support their favorite music. If it is not on a physical media (and stay away from Blu-Ray) it isn't real.

JoNoes - 9/4/2012 1:57 PM

0 Votes

Report User

Interesting, I thought that when you paid to purchase a song, you owned that copy of such song. As long as you don't alter it, you would be able to transfer it to any device you choose and therefore, pass it on to your kids so long as it is for private listening and no money is being made off those songs or library.

joedomino - 9/4/2012 1:34 PM

0 Votes

Report User

Just don't blog that you died and you will be fine.

Click Here to Add Your Comments View All

Helpful Links

Help

Having trouble finding something? Drop us an email and we'll try to assist...

Your Name:

Your Email Address:

Phone: (optional)

Question or Comment:

This site is hosted and managed by Inergize Digital.
Mobile advertising for this site is available on Local Ad Buy.