Wednesday, March 29, 2006

The Beatles take Apple to court!

The Beatles have taken Apple to court in a long standing row over the name Apple. For the Beatles own Apple Corp which shares the fruity logo. They had a painful legal battle over the name in the '80's, which settled in 1991 with Apple paying up to $26M (apparently) to enable them to keep using the name. With limited use in the music industry.

Thanks to iTunes and the iPod, the Beatles Apple Corp has the US computer company in the UK's high court over breach of the last agreement. And if your not confused enough by now I'll just cut to the chase.

I guess it wil be hard to prove that Apple is not heavily into the music industry thanks to their new Internet services and iPod player. Even though they are a distributor and not creator or publisher of music. The likely outcome will be another large chunk of change going from Apple Computers to the Beatles.

And the high court judge is even a self-confessed iPod fan. Does anyone not have an iPod?! I even have one now - mmm, nice! Anyway, the press surrounding the case and the likely hike to iPod sales as a result of it (as if they need any help flogging the little players), should more than offset by any payments to the Beatles.

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