Have you noticed that Apple has a lengthy and detailed bio of The Beatles on iTunes?

I wonder if there is a contingency deal in place that would bring The Beatles to iTunes depending on how the judge rules. If the judge rules for Apple we do this; if the judge rules for Apple Corp. we do that.

No way in hell will a British court rule in favor of Apple Computer.

No way.

i too think Apple Corp (Beatles company) will win. It's the muisic business stupid!!

It will probably come down to a technical matter of contract interpretation.

As This Register article suggests, the original contract is self-contradictory. It was drafted in an era when current technology wasn't foreseen and can potentially be interpreted either way as to what either company has the right to do.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03...apple_day_two/

British law probably has a default way of deciding such contradictions. It may be that the "spirit of the law" is applied, so that even though Apple Corps didn't specifically say that Apple Computer wasn't allowed to use data transmission with regards to music, the other parts of the contract suggested that this would have been the case had they known it was possible.

The law isn't a moron, although this contract is founded on a moronic premise, that one company owns the entire rights to do ANYTHING at all with computerized music. (The whole problem started back when the Apple ][ was capable of making beep beep tones from its speaker.)

Who knows, Apple may be pulling its store from France AND the UK.

apple corps needs to find new ways of making money. sueing apple computer is getting old. beatle john in heaven can't be happy with this.

Here is the decision: The judge will use common sense and find that it is not "data transmission" it is music, just like vinyl and tape are not materials, they are music when that is what they are made for. Tunes on Apple's store are tunes, period.
But, you folks are missing something, I believe the judge has to find that it has harmed Apple Corps. And here he will find that people know iTunes is run buy a Computer Company and that they only deal in music, and that it is not the Beetles music company, therefore no harm no foul.

At least that is what I think. And no doubt the idiot investors who don't have a clue about Apple will push up it's stock a couple points, or down depending on how it goes.

For the sake of the argument here: What if Apple Corps. decided to team with some tech developer to make their own MP3 type player (or collaborate just for an initial promotional release and entry into the market) which has the entire Beatles catalogue ala the U2 Edition?

What if they released it as the "Apple BeatPod" or something like that, with the Beatles' green Apple logo prominantly on the front and in the ads?. Don't you think Apple Computer might go after them? But maybe the Beatles' Apple would be OK since no one thought in 1991....etc, etc. Shouldn't it work both ways???