  Are Your iTunes Really Yours? Bruce Willis and Eminem Are On
the Case.  By Genevieve Burgess | Think Pieces | September 6,
2012 | Comments ()   This week Bruce Willis allegedly made some
interesting statements about his iTunes library. He's unhappy
that when he dies, he can't pass the library onto his daughters
the way you would a record collection. There were some initial
reports that he was suing, but those are evidently untrue. Some
reports indicate that the whole story was overblown. Still,
whatever the provenance of the story, it gives us a good
opportunity to take a hard look at what exactly you're buying
from iTunes and whether it matches up with what you think you've
bought and what the record companies want to say they sold you.
Since digital files started gaining prominence, there's been
some debate over what purchasing a digital file gets you. The
easy answer is a copy of the song to play on your compatible
devices. But if iTunes purchases aren't files you can pass from
person to person freely,