April 13, 200620 yr Linkage Here LONDON (Reuters) - The Beatles are preparing to sell their songs online after years of refusing to take part in the Internet music boom, according to testimony given by the head of their record company. Neil Aspinall, a former Beatles road manager and managing director of Apple Corps, was a witness in the company's trademark lawsuit against Apple Computer (Research). Apple Computers is anti-Beatle? Say it ain't so Jim.
April 13, 200620 yr QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 12:28 PM) Linkage Here Apple Computers is anti-Beatle? Say it ain't so Jim. Ah, there is some classic Apple history behind that, predating the 1991 legal agreement between the companies by several years. Back in the early 80s before the mac was launched, Apple Computers and Apple Records reached an agreement in which Apple Records said Jobs could use the name and logo as long as they never got into the audio entertainment business. When the mac came out it had a speaker in it to play system alert sounds, and there was a concern that Apple Computers was in effect now entering the audio entertainment world. Jobs response to this, completely in character for him, was to do as he wanted and to even include a system alert called "sosumi" (So Sue Me) to mark the occassion. It was mostly harmless between the companies until the beginning of the digital music revolution, when Apple was obviously very much part of the audio entertainment world.
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