Blog #6: A Dispute Over Ray Charles

In the month of March a foundation Ray Charles started is suing seven of the singer’s children. The foundation accused Charles’s children a violating an agreement with their father. The children are accused of illegality claims rights to their father’s estate. In the contract with their father, the seven adult children are forbidden to claim rights to their father’s estate. The foundation claims that the children sent out notices of claims to their father’s music. But the children are supposed to have relinquished their rights to their father’s estate by accepting a 500,000 dollar trust fund in 2002 two years before their father’s death.

                The foundation says that it supports programs that help the hearing disabled people like Ray Charles. The foundation states that they our using the money from the estate of Ray Charles to fund those programs. The article states that the children of the star are claiming for a renegotiation of copyrights. Also it says that the children claim some songs can’t be copyrighted because the composer was paid by an individual or group of individuals to write the music.

                I think that the foundation is the right party. I think this because the children got 500,000 dollars from their dad already and now they want more? They are just a bunch of money hungry kids of a famous artist.