Do we like them?

Do we like Avicii?

Our score: 7 out of 10. Decent and on the right side with no harmful words or acts found, but he died young and the record is thin, so I've held back from the top scores.

The foundation wasn't meant to stop there. The family said it would also be active in climate change, nature conservation and endangered species, in Sweden and abroad. For a page that cares about people and the planet, that's a tick in both columns.

The news hook is a legal stoush. Ash Pournouri, who managed Avicii until 2016, is suing four companies controlled by the family over how he's portrayed in the documentary True Stories and later biographies. He says he wants the record set straight and isn't after money, while the estate's lawyers called the suit baseless.

A Stockholm court dismissed the case in March on procedural grounds, citing problems with how the claim was structured, not whether it had merit. In June an appeal court overturned that, so it goes back to the district court for a proper hearing. Pournouri welcomed it, saying “It feels very good that the case can now be tried in the district court.”

On the harm check, I searched his name against LGBTQ+ people, women, climate and politics and found nothing from him that hurts anyone. There's no slide into grievance and no dodgy company. The honest caveat is that I couldn't open every outlet and his career ended young, so the record is short rather than spotless.

So where does that leave us? A bloke whose legacy is now mostly about mental health and nature isn't a hard call. The lawsuit is a fight over his story, and Avicii isn't the one accused of anything in it. Until a court decides it, that's the only cloud on his name.