Willis plans on Apple legal action

Bruce Willis is planning to take Apple to court.

Bruce Willis is planning to take Apple to court.

The Hollywood actor wants to leave his stash of downloaded music to his daughters when he dies.

But the iTunes online store states the collection has only been borrowed and can't be passed on.

Digital campaigners Open Rights Group are backing Bruce in his challenge.

Jim Killock, of the organisation, said: "You can't resell downloads to friends - and are not allowed to leave them in your will.

"It's great that Bruce Willis is challenging it."

Bruce - who also has five-month-old daughter Mabel with wife Emma Heming - has spent thousands on his music collection, which reportedly includes songs by The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, and downloaded his tunes onto "many, many iPods".

The 'Sixth Sense' actor is thought to be thinking of asking his legal team to suggest to Apple that family trusts could be the "holders" of his downloaded music.

Apple is able to freeze the iTunes accounts of anyone it believes is passing on music to other people and it doesn't allow them to transfer songs to mp3 players other than the company's iPods.

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