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Posted on 02/05/2007 10:21:46 AM PST by Swordmaker
Apple Press Release verbatim:
CUPERTINO, California and LONDON—Apple Inc. and The Beatles’ company Apple Corps Ltd. are pleased to announce the parties have entered into a new agreement concerning the use of the name “Apple” and apple logos which replaces their 1991 Agreement. Under this new agreement, Apple Inc. will own all of the trademarks related to “Apple” and will license certain of those trademarks back to Apple Corps for their continued use. In addition, the ongoing trademark lawsuit between the companies will end, with each party bearing its own legal costs, and Apple Inc. will continue using its name and logos on iTunes. The terms of settlement are confidential.
Commenting on the settlement, Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO said, “We love the Beatles, and it has been painful being at odds with them over these trademarks. It feels great to resolve this in a positive manner, and in a way that should remove the potential of further disagreements in the future.”
Commenting on the settlement on behalf of the shareholders of Apple Corps, Neil Aspinall, manager of Apple Corps said, “It is great to put this dispute behind us and move on. The years ahead are going to be very exciting times for us. We wish Apple Inc. every success and look forward to many years of peaceful co-operation with them.”
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All you need is love. (And a whole lotta money.)
Now give me money
That's what I want
That's what I want, yeah
That's what I want
No mention of the Beatles catalog available for downloads, though.
Money can't buy me love.
Well that clinches it. I will NOT be buying an apple. I hate the beatles, those bigoted, snotty rich drug addicts who stick their noses in issues like seal hunting, global warming, and other retarded liberal idiocy, while making money hand over fist using the capitolism they speak out against. They are the worlds biggest hypocrates, jetting around the world, wasting the worlds resources while they wallow in extravangance.
Typical liberals with the, "you little people cannot have the better things the world has to offer, they are for us Liberal elite only" attitude.
Yeah, you were THIS close to buying an Apple computer, but you won't now, because the head of Apple says that he likes the Beatles, and is glad the Beatles' lawsuit is over.
Right.
Don't hold back, Zach. Tell us how you really feel! LOL
Don't sugarcoat it Nate. What else have the Beatles done to piss you off?
By the way,is there another group called the Beatles wasting the worlds resources?
"No mention of the Beatles catalog available for downloads, though."
I took "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band," being played while Steve Jobs first demoed the iPhone, to mean that it was a given. They would never have played anything from the Beatles catalog had the legal issues not been settled, and they're not going to play music on one of their products, at a high visibility intro event, that won't be available via iTunes.
Now all they need to do is pay off Cisco for the iPhone name.
Me, too - but no joy yet.
"Could that "peaceful co-operation" include, say, licensing Beatles songs for sale on iTunes? Unfortunately, the Super Bowl yesterday didn't pan out for eager Apple fans who were hoping that recent rumors would come to fruition regarding such a licensing deal. But this new settlement brings hope that such a deal could be struck soon. Hey, there's still February 14."
Apple Inc. and Apple Corps come to new licensing agreement, Infinite Loop blog
Amusingly, Apple Corps doesn't actually own the rights to most of the Beatles' albums. Michael Jackson did for a while (along with Sony) but I seem to recall that he used them as collateral for a loan and Bank Of America took them when he defaulted.
This isn't getting Apple access to the Beatles catalog. This is all about ending the harassment from the useless parasites over at Apple Corps once and for all (which it doee - Apple inc just bought all the copyrights and trademarks from Apple Corps).
Down with Washington, DC!
Down with London---down with Paris!
Down with Moscow, too!
(more than just a) Penny Lane...
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