Coffs Ex-Services Computer Club

You can't make this sort of thing up:

"In Michigan, in Warner Bros. v. Scantlebury, after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA [Recording Industry Associateion of America] made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to allow the family time to "grieve", after which time they want to start taking depositions of the late Mr. Scantlebury's children."

In a way it makes sense that after years of "protecting" long-dead artists, that the recording industry should turn the harsh searchlight of copyright justice onto those who seek to use death as a way of evading payment of what they owe to artists (or more usually their descendants, or the owners of their record companies, or their music publishers, etc.).

Is the late Mr. Scantlebury guilty? Probably not, but the important thing is to send a strong message to those who think that they can posthumously share music with impunity.