Many of Brown’s songs are due to revert back to the late singer’s control in the coming years under US copyright law which will allow his heirs to license them to commercials, TV shows, movies and video games or sell them outright. While the settlement terms have not been made public, several of Brown’s children and grandchildren are likely to split up termination rights on the copyright to Brown’s 900 compositions, reports Billboard. It comes after Brown specified in his will in 2000 that he would leave very little to his heirs, other than a $2million (£1.46million) scholarship fund for his grandchildren.īut his daughters Deanna Brown-Thomas and Yamma Brown, among others, found a way to inherit potentially millions of dollars, following his death. (Several people quoted in the CNN piece called Bobbit's story vague and suspicious.James Brown‘s family have finally settled a 15 year legal wrangle over the late singer’s estate. According to White, Bobbit and Washington claimed to have left the Godfather of Soul alone for a period of time, during which a nurse said Brown "had been visited by a male stranger," and after that visit, his vital signs rapidly declined. White, the aforementioned friend who took the vial of blood, says he, too, left Brown that night in good spirits with the singer's personal manager, Charles Bobbit, and an assistant named David Washington. By the time he had returned to work, Brown was dead.
Crawford recalls Brown being admitted to the hospital on December 23 with “symptoms of early congestive heart failure and signs of a mild heart attack.” Brown's urine also allegedly tested positive for cocaine, and after giving him oxygen, IV diuretics and ACE inhibitors, Crawford said the funk singer "improved fast" and "probably could have walked out of the hospital if he wanted." The physician says when he left the hospital on December 24 to spend Christmas Eve with his family, all seemed well - but late that night, he received a phone call from the hospital that Brown's heart had stopped. Brown received a visit from a 'male stranger' prior to his sudden deathįor his part, Dr.
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