I think a site would at least have to keep the money safe, and go by what an executor said when the estate was sorted. Which could depend on the details of the contract between site and artist, and likely on whether there was anything in a dead-artist's will.

It's partly about finding who gets the rights, and what they want to do.

Freestuff, perhaps held on a third-party site, can vanish pretty suddenly. What happens when the next payment to an ISP isn't made?

Does anybody know the value of those obscure files on your machine, or what all those shiney discs contain?

Message edited on: 11/21/2004 02:44