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Originally Posted by azande From The Register: Beatles recording company Apple Corporation has failed to persuade the English High Court that Apple Computer's iTunes Music Service is a violation of a 1991 deal struck by the two companies to define their respective business domains. |
Don't count your chickens just yet. The judge (apparently) accepted Apple Computer's argument that an iPod is simply a data storage device. In my view that is eminently appealable on the grounds when was the last time you saw a Zip drive
with headphones?
The sad part about it is that if Northern Songs hadn't been sold then this money would be small change to the Beatles and their heirs - well, Lennon and McCartney mostly. Michael Jackson recently, reportedly, sold 50% of his 50% holding in (what used to be) Northern Songs for a figure north of £300 million. To Sony Corp, who already owned the 25% that Jackson didn't own. He sold that a while ago and p!ssed it away on [
words redacted by libel filter] one after the other, resulting legal costs and his poxy Wonderland.