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Beatles vs Apple

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Coming Soon: by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  2. Imagine by Aggrazel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine no lawsuits ... it isn't hard if you try ...

  3. Ummmm by savagedome · · 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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  4. Trademark confusion? by Tokerat · · Score: 5, Funny


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

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  5. Sosumi by AlfredoLambda · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clank!

  6. Re:If John Lennon were alive by Anonymous Coward · · 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."

  7. Re:I want to help the beatles by Alioth · · 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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  8. Re:AppleCorp as a megacorp? by OrangeCowHide · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  9. Man... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Paul McCartney must be rolling in his grave.

  10. Re:I want to help the beatles by MarkGriz · · 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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  11. Thank Apple Corp for iPods! by paragon_au · · 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.