Beatles vs Apple

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 13, 2004 @06:15AM from the take-a-bite-out-of-the-oh-never-mind dept.

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.

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I want to help the beatles by AssProphet · 2004-09-13 06:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Why do companies these days always resort to the law to handle their problems.

the Beatles' company should hire Mr.T
1. Re:I want to help the beatles by Alioth · 2004-09-13 06:27 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Actually, why not?
  
  Southwest Airlines (an airline who actually has a clueful CEO for a change) did almost this. They had an (unintentional) trademark collision with another airline due to a promotion they were running.
  
  Instead of running to the lawyers, Herb Kelleher (CEO of Southwest), challenged the CEO of the other airline (who's name escapes me right now) to an arm wrestling match.
  
  Herb lost; the trademark dispute was resolved in the other airline's favour. No lawyers involved, and it undoubtedly saved both companies a buttload of money.
  
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2. Re:I want to help the beatles by wertarbyte · 2004-09-13 06:44 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Sorry, the site you requested is inactive.
  This GeoCities site has been deactivated due to inactivity.
  What is this, some kind of reversed /. effect?
  
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3. Re:I want to help the beatles by MarkGriz · 2004-09-13 07:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Fist fight? Bah!
  
  You know, I wish we... I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel
  
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Coming Soon: by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-13 06:20 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Like Lennon said... by WormholeFiend · 2004-09-13 06:21 · Score: 4, Funny

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 by Aggrazel · 2004-09-13 06:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Imagine no lawsuits ... it isn't hard if you try ...
Ummmm by savagedome · 2004-09-13 06:22 · Score: 5, Funny

Beatles fan Steve Jobs could lose a large bite of his Apple to his idols

Shouldn't that be iDols?

*ducks*

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Trademark confusion? by Tokerat · 2004-09-13 06:25 · Score: 5, Funny

Wait....Apple COMPUTER runs the iTunes Music Store? Oh, damn...

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Sosumi by AlfredoLambda · 2004-09-13 06:25 · Score: 5, Funny

Clank!
So? by Bendebecker · 2004-09-13 06:26 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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Re:If John Lennon were alive by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-13 06:26 · Score: 5, Funny

"As it is, Yoko's vagina is a ceaseless money vacuum."

Given this is Slashdot you may want to keep it to terms that the local nerds will know. For example, "As it is, Yoko's mysterious nether region is a ceaseless money vacuum. SCO sucks."
Re:AppleCorp as a megacorp? by OrangeCowHide · 2004-09-13 06:29 · Score: 5, Funny

By definition, shouldn't it be one containing more than 10^6 corps?

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Man... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-13 06:39 · Score: 5, Funny

Paul McCartney must be rolling in his grave.
Thank Apple Corp for iPods! by paragon_au · 2004-09-13 08:11 · Score: 5, Funny

"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.