Charles children filed the case against the Ray Charles Foundation. Noise11.com reports that Charles had agreed to leave his works to the foundation to fund their charity activities and left his ten children $500,000 each provided they make no claims against the foundation.

Seven of the ten children did not abide by that and instead used copyright laws to give notice to Warner/Chappell Music that they would be terminating the longstanding agreement with the company in 2010, according to the report which meant the foundation would no longer receive money from the copyright.