If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em
Various sites are reporting that Apple Computer may have more than a settlement offer up its sleeve in response to Apple Corps, the company behind the Beatles, taking Apple to court over trademark violations… again.
It looks like these two Apples might not fall far from the tree after all. The Beatles company has been floating the
idea of finally granting rights for digital distribution of the Liverpool lads’ music - although it may be only for a
limited time. Given that Jobs is such a huge Beatles fan, he might just be willing to offer a settlement that includes
the reported $25million the Beatles are asking for, in exchange for the privilege of creating an exclusive Beatles
mini-store within the the iTunes Music Store. At $.99 a tune, we’re talking well over 200 million download before the
ITMS breaks even. This is no Penny Lane.
Lawsuits like these - and deals like these - don’t happen overnight, so it may be a while before we know more. Until
then, I’ll continue to sing…
We can work it out
We can work it out
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Kevin Ashworth said 4:15PM on 6-16-2005
If you can't beat Microsoft Word's inability to replace a single straight quotation mark at the beginning of shortened words with the appropriate curly apostrophe, join them. ;)
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Laurie said 4:15PM on 6-16-2005
MS Word has never been any where near my posts :) BlogSmith did that all on its own!
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