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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.
If you play Yellow Submarine backwards, you hear Paul say "Steve Jobs is p0wned"
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This is a scandalous money grab. Apple Records had absolutely no contribution to the success of Apple Computer and its iTunes store, or its iPod. The success of iTunes and iPod is pure Apple Computer genius and trademark industrial design, and Apple Records has absolutely no right to claim a major bite out of that, or become a major shareholder in Apple Computer as a result. I mean, what have they contributed to the iPod or iTMS that was of value and deserved such hefty return??! Seriously, who have bought an Apple iPod or tracks from the iTunes music store thinking it was made or directly endorsed by the Beatles Apple Records??!! Apple Records is essentially squatting a word of the English language and seeking to extort Apple Computers regardless of market realities. Besides, Apple Computer is in its normal line of business, and that includes multimedia, as many other computer companies are currently doing, I mean, Does Apple Records expect Apple Computer to ship mute computers? Heck, look around, every major computer company, and even non-major ones, have a multimedia online operation. Apple Computer is right to say that they have different interpretations of the agreement; fore example, when they start talent scouting and recording their music artists then yeah, that *is* music business, but what they are doing now is within their line of computer business.
Two things annoy me most; first, I hope the judges won't be nationalistic about this; I live in the UK and people here have an excessively heightened esteem for all things British. Second, I have the worry that the judges may not represent the actual consumers of iPods or or iTMS, and due to their age, generation and British nationality, may even be more familiar with Apple Records than they are with Apple Computers.
If Apple Records gets anything out of this it would be a major breach of commonsense and basic morality.
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Have you not been paying attention? Its a contract case and not a trademark case. Answer the second part. Whats your interest here?
Well, maybe if she drank a little milk she wouldn't have gotten freaking cancer.
Vegetarians. Worthless anti-evolutionary bleeding hearts.
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