Re: Death

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On 4/30/05, Curmudgeon wrote:
> That will depend on what the written agreement between the
> parties says. If there is no written agreement, everyone is
> looking at a major and probably expensive battle.
>
> On 4/30/05, Kendra wrote:
>> In the case of a death. There are 3 authors copywriten to
>> music. Who retaines the rights to the lyrics of that music
>> when the vocalist is deceased?

There was no written agreement just a copywright. The family
wants to retain the rights to his music but they dont
understand that Jason just wrote the lyrics and not the actual
music. So under the copywright law the rest of the band should
be protected with there roles in the group right?