http://today.reuters.com/news/ newsarticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-05-08T121130 Z_01_L08592117_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-APPLE.xml&pageNumber=0&ima geid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage2
LONDON (Reuters) - Apple Computer won its courtroom battle against the Beatles on Monday when a judge ruled the company's iTunes Music Store did not infringe on the trademark of Apple Corps, which represents the band's interests.
In a trial which included the playing of disco hit "Le Freak" in London's High Court, Apple Corps argued the computer company had violated a 1991 trademark agreement by moving into the music business.
Apple Computer, which has sold millions of iPods and more than a billion song downloads, held that iTunes was primarily a data transmission service and permitted by the agreement.
ID:12128
 May 8 2006, 5:43 am
|
|
Anywho, Apple computers do not make music, nor produce it, but rather distribute it. Which is not the same as what the other Apple does, and who cares about a company that works for a band that doesn't exist any more? That is not to say that the beatles wheren't the best thing since sliced bread, though.