Comments on: Apple vs. Apple: Perfect harmony?

Can Steve Jobs turn around a tough legal problem and get his beloved Beatles in an iTunes exclusive?

[Dibbs]

and the beatles really NEED more money!

this all just sounds like the beatles and their familes being
greedy. like they need more money! they're the biggest global
phenomenon ever and they're rolling in cash! don't try to tell me
they're protecting their name because i don't buy it! when you
think "apple" do you think "beatles" or "apple computer." that's
right, you DO think apple computer, and for a good reason.
Apple Corps is full of iteself. i think they should mind their own
business (which is doing quite well by any standard), and stay
out of apple's, unless of course they want to actually DO some
business with them.

[Alex Alexzander]

Goodbye Beatles.

I cannot believe Apple Corps believes Apple Computer is somehow being confused for them, or harming them. Apple Computer, Inc. is an incredible brand and does nothing but help Apple Corps. How in the world is Apple Corps hurt by Apple computer? What possible loss in revenue can they point to as a direct result of Apple Computer?

On a more personal note, Apple Corps has lost a customer in me. I won't be buying anything else from them again.

-Alex Alexzander

[alek_nedic]

they need more money

http://www.analogstereo.com/nissan_altima_owners_manual.htm

Don't! Wouldn't be a happy shareholder.

Apple should definitely spend $15 million on other interests besides exclusive handling of the Beatles. It's simply NOT worth it.

[alek_nedic]

$15 million on other interests

http://www.analogstereo.com/nissan_murano_owners_manual.htm

Apple rotten to the Corps

Sorry, couldn't resist...

Wrote about this over a week ago:
http://www.buzzhit.com/2004/09/forbescom-mccartney-rumored-apple.html

Nothing's changed since.

[kakman1]

Licensing

Steve Jobs buy Apple Corps, lock, stock and barrel? Not even Bill Gates could achieve such a coup! And you still have to pay Beatle song publisher Northern Songs royalty fees to Sony Music and Michael Jackson. Seriously, I do not see any settlement that would include the digital distribution of the Beatles legacy. The master tapes to the official Beatle catalogue are licensed to EMI. I severely doubt the surviving Beatles and the estates of George Harrison and John Lennon would transfer or bestow even a limited license to Apple Computers unless there was a very secure DRM in place (at the behest of John and Paul, Apple Corps invested in several technological schemes that would discourage or foil copying of their albums when consumers still made copies of their music collections primarily with stereo tape recorders).

[kakman1]

What could be believeable...

What could be believeable...
is that Steve Jobs may be buying Michael Jackson's interest in Northern Songs to get more leverage in his dealing with Apple Corps. This doesn't affect Ringo Starr or the Harrison estate so much but much irritates Paul McCartney. The idea is plausible because Michael Jackson is now bleeding money worse than SCOGroup and pre-1970 Apple Corps combined.

[smellcoffee]

RDF

"...but he cautioned that Jobs may want to curb his enthusiasm.
"If he looks too eager on that score, it's going to cost him."

I think Jobs can handle himself in negotiations.....

Hello!
Thats suppose to be sarcastic response to the quate, as in a
MAJOR UNDERSTATEMENT of the century!!!

[kakman1]

You're kidding right?

"On a more personal note, Apple Corps has lost a customer in me. I won't be buying anything else from them again."

Apple Corps doesn't sell anything to anybody. It licenses the image, words and music of The Beatles to other companies to sell and Apple Corps collects all royalties and other fees. This includes recorded music.

[alek_nedic]

buying anything else from them

http://www.analogstereo.com/nissan_maxima_owners_manual.htm

[Brian Breeding]

so last century

Come on folks, admit it. The Beatles, while revolutionary in their
own way OVER 30 YEARS AGO is, to twist a phrase, "so last
century". As a highly trained classical musician, I could
appreciate a few songs that actually had real structure and
innovation. However, and in the "pop" culture of today, when
did The Beatles last record a new song? Sorry all, but I agree
with many other posters. If you think Apple, you think
computer/iPod/Thinkdifferent. You do not think of a small
scurrying bug. I can't say however that Apple Corps will be
loosing another customer because of this flap--they never had
me and never will. Let it go Apple Corp, you were a "revolution"
once, but that was "long, long, long" ago, so just "let it be".

Harmony? Get it?

heh. Best headline ever. Took a jab at Apple's OTHER legal dispute with Real Networks over their Harmony iTunes technology. High five CNET :P

[Rederikus]

Hope the Beatles win

I hope that The Beatles wipe Apple's iTunes off the planet with their law suit. The iTunes business model is highly restrictive and limits consumer choice. The French Government's recent ruling against iTunes will hopefully be followed by all other European countries but maybe by other countries too.

The Beatles should win this quite easily since the agreement with Apple computer is quite clear. Apple computer and Apple records may share the name Apple as long as Apple computer does not enter the entertainment business.

With luck Apple records will win enough damages to wipe iTunes off the map but, I doubt it.

[alek_nedic]

entertainment business

http://www.analogstereo.com/nissan_frontier_owners_manual.htm

[skidoodle]

apple vs apple

When i think of apple i think of computers or fruit.
Apple corp never comes to mind.

i have been an apple computer fan from the begining. the logos
dont even look alike.
Apple corps logo is just ONE SOUR APPLE
I dont know too many people that really care about Beatles tunes
anymore. Over played and OLD

[skidoodle]

apple vs apple

When i think of apple i think of computers or fruit.
Apple corp never comes to mind.

i have been an apple computer fan from the begining. the logos
dont even look alike.
Apple corps logo is just ONE SOUR APPLE
I dont know too many people that really care about Beatles tunes
anymore. Over played and OLD