If this was a movie, Bruce Willis would burst into Tim Cook’s office shoeless, uttering some wize-cracking remark and ultimately save the day for digital music rights holders.
But it’s not a movie and action-star Bruce Willis, who had a hit record in 1987 with a re-make of “Respect Yourself” is planning on taking Apple to court over his iTunes library.
According to a published report, the actor of classic films such as Die Hard, The Sixth Sense and the recent Expendables 2 is upset that he cannot legally leave his digital music collection to his daughters from the Demi Moore marriage.
Willis was planning on leaving his entire digital music collection to his daughters, Rumer, Scout and Tallulah. However, currently he can’t because under the Apple iTunes terms and conditions agreement between the company and the user it states that customers don’t own the tracks outright; they are only borrowing them from iTunes’ catalogue.
What this means for Willis is that when the owner of an iTunes account dies, all of the music or books they downloaded in their lifetime die with them.
The report went on to say that Willis is thinking of going public with his fight to make people aware of this legal manoeuver along with increasing iTunes customer rights.