Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Apple VS The Beatles

"Lovely Rita meter maid. Nothing can come between us, When it gets dark I tow your heart away." Lovely Rita was the song playing for the introduction and demonstration of the new Apple iPhone. Not only that, the background display were former Beatle album covers. Many individuals have an appreciation for the group and/or their music, but there are there are many curves when it comes to downloading the music between two Apple Companies.
The maker of the iPod, is known as Apple Inc., yet it is also the guardian of Beatle music interests. Apple Inc just recently took up the rihts and trademarks of everything that relates to Apple. This includes Apple Corps Ltd, a company that was founded by the Beatles in the 60's.
Question is, because of the agreement, is iTunes going to allow licensing abilities for Beatle music downloading, and make it unavailable on other downloadable music services?
The original agreement was made by the former beatles (Yoko Ono took charge of John Lennon's part because of his untimely death), dead set on making sure Apple Corps did not use the apple logo in the music business. Things changed beginning in 2003 when Apple dropped "Computer" from their logo.
A judge ruded that all this being part of the Apple family, the company in all rights have the ability to make use of the logo. To me this is absolutely rediculas. If a large part of Apple name was founded by the Beatles, they sound have higher rights when it comes to decisions made within the company. If they do not wish to release their music and their art on certain levels then their word should be heard.

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