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Beatles vs Apple
loid_void writes "Beatles fan Steve Jobs could lose a large bite of his Apple to his idols, says a report in Forbes. The Beatles' company, Apple Corps., is involved in a legal battle with Jobs' Apple Computer, claiming the hardware manufacturer is in breach of a 1991 agreement that that forbids it from using the trademark for any application "whose principle content is music." The two companies have been involved in a number of court battles over the years involving the use of the Apple trademark." Good summary of all the wacky misadventure the two mega corporations have had.
Why do companies these days always resort to the law to handle their problems.
the Beatles' company should hire Mr.T
Make the next iPod yellow and engrave on the back "B3ATL35 R00LZ!!!11!!!" That should satisfy Apple Records.
Steve Jobs is expected to announce at the next MacWorld that every new iPod will now ship with a single MP3 file on the harddrive called sosumi.
this would have never happened.
As it is, Yoko's vagina is a ceaseless money vacuum.
look for the person who will benefit. And you will, uh, you know, you'll, uh, you know what I'm trying to say...
Imagine no lawsuits ... it isn't hard if you try ...
Oh hell, this is typical big business angling to screw another big business; nothing new, and it just proves that apple isn't morally better or worse than anybody else, including microsoft.
/. spin this to try to make this into a issue that Apple Records is wrong, and Apple is doing this for the good of all Mankind.
No, the fun part will be watching the Apple fanatics on
I think its already begun!
Oh, good. Apple Computer has nothing to worry about. Despite the vagaries of language, there's no way a court will uphold "principle content" over "principal content".
Next?
Beatles fan Steve Jobs could lose a large bite of his Apple to his idols
Shouldn't that be iDols?
*ducks*
Free XBox, PS2
Wait....Apple COMPUTER runs the iTunes Music Store? Oh, damn...
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
I'm with Apple on this subject!
SCNR
Clank!
Maybe they'll rename the company Orange. Of course, then they'll have to deal with people comparing the offerings of the new company to those of the old, but that won't go to far. Afterall, you can't compare Apple's to Orange's.
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
Obviously this is just another evil attempt by M$ to monopolize the industry.
The two most overrated entities on the planet go at it. I hope WalMart buys them both so we don't have to hear about either ever again.
By definition, shouldn't it be one containing more than 10^6 corps?
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains. - Evilest Doe
Buy nonvoting shares?
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away,
iPod sales rising heavily,
but oh oh Yesterday
Yesterday Apple music were so far away,
and now oh no we have to pay,
If you have nothing useful to say post as AC.
Paul McCartney must be rolling in his grave.
So, you could say that the Beatles are helping Michael Jackson get out of jail?
Engineering and the Ultimate
Waitaminnit... I didn't know the surviving members of The Clash were involved in this litigation! How dare Apple Computer confuse people with their iSandanista product!
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Now if the agreement said "whose principal content is music" they might have a problem. http://www.shared-visions.com/explore/english/prin prin.html/
Apple Computer has decided to adopt the DBA of
"Lemon Computer", citing "bug problems".
What's the threshold of calling a company a megacorp?
To 10 year olds (and career college students) everything incorporated is a Big, Bad, Evil, Globalized Megacorp.
another great deal brought to you by the same moron who brought Apple that great GUI licensing deal they had with MS.
good job
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
And all of this sputtering vile has nothing to do with the issue at hand. An agreement was signed and is binding. Oh, I guess if you have enough fanatic followers you can pick and choose which legal contracts you honor. This is so typical of someone like Steve Jobs who thinks he's above such mundane things as the law. Geez, this law suit couldn't have come as a suprise to anyone.
"They may have done it purposefully once they knew they weren't getting the Beatles' tracks on the iTMS - to see what they could get Apple Corps to do."
Ofcourse! One day Jobs was kicking around the idea of selling Beatles music online, when Apple Corp said no. He decided to invent the iPod and start up iTunes Online Store.
It all makes sense now.
For that matter, who associates Apple with the Beatles? The Beatles brands stands on its own as well. I think the whole issue is a load of crap, and Apple has reasonably and legitimately upheld its part of the agreement. It's not the Apple Music Store, the Apple iTunes Music store or anything like that.
50 bucks on Apple.
No reference to "Sue me, sue you blues" -G Harrison ?
In 1994, Apple Computer began developing the Power Macintosh 7100. They chose the internal code name "Sagan", in honor of the astronomer. Though the project name was strictly internal and never used in public marketing, when Sagan learned of this internal usage, he sued Apple Computer to use a different project name. Though Sagan lost the suit, Apple engineers complied with his demands anyway, renaming the project "Butthead Astronomer". Sagan sued Apple for libel over the new name, claiming that it subjected him to contempt and ridicule. Sagan lost this lawsuit as well. Maybe Butthead Beatles could be used somewhere here as well...
Hee hee.
TANSTAAFI: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free iPod.
On the other hand, when my father thinks "Apple", he thinks "fruit".
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
And when will Gateway sue Gateway?