“A representative for Apple Corps, the corporate face of rock icons The Beatles, said Friday that the company has sued Apple Computer over its iTunes service, in a sequel to a previous trademark dispute,” David Becker reports for CNET News.com. “Geoff Baker, spokesman for Apple Corps, confirmed the suit was filed two months ago in London High Court. He referred further questions to a statement put out by Apple Corps, the company the legendary rock ban formed in 1968 to manage its business interests.”
“‘Specifically, (the) complaint is made over the use by Apple Computer of the word ‘Apple’ and apple logos in conjunction with its new application for downloading pre-recorded music from the Internet,’ according to the statement, apparently referring to Apple’s successful iTunes Music Store service for downloading digital songs. Apple Corps. first tussled with Apple Computer over trademark issues in 1989… The two Apples appeared to be getting along OK since then, as evidenced by iMac ads featuring John Lennon,” Becker reports.
[MacDailyNews Note: John Lennon was featured in Apple’s Think Different ads which were image ads for Apple Computer, Inc., not the iMac.]
“But Apple has recently jumped into the music business in a big way, both with iTunes and its iPod digital music players,” Becker reports. Apple Computer issued a brief statement on the case: ‘Over a decade ago, Apple signed an agreement with Apple Corps, a business controlled by the Beatles and their heirs, which specified the rights each company would have to use the ‘Apple’ trademark. Unfortunately, Apple and Apple Corps now have differing interpretations of this agreement and will need to ask a court to resolve this dispute.'”
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I use a real computer, toy lovers. And it’s about time Apple got its ass handed to it. They have no right to market music in their segregated, tiny, expensive music store. Only for Macs! LOL!!! By the time Apple Corps is done, Apple Computer’s whole “digital hub” bullshit will be GONE. Soon to follow by the entire company. Get Windows XP and see how the real computer users live! Stop bending over and grabbing your ankles for Steve Jobs overpriced, underpowered, designer boxes that can’t even run Outlook or Access or WMP9.
another PC fan who thinks it is in his best interest to have a computer industry dominated by one company, Microsoft.
I just don’t get it and will never understand the attitude. Why would you care that someone chooses to drive a different car, use a different camera, a different platform. It just makes no sense to me. I thought choice and competition were what made our free enterprise system the best in the world.
Does mommy know you’re online?
I’ve got news for you bucko. WinXP is the best MS has to offer is is quite close to being a decent OS but do you know what? It’s not there yet, sorry to tell you. I run XP, as well as NT4, Server 2003, and BSD in my office as servers and desktop machines and guess which computers need the most attention? Guess which ones need to be rebooted/patched/fixed in general the most often. Above all, guess which ones are subject to more attempts by hackers. I’ll give you a hint, I haven’t had any problems with the BSD box since I started on here but the Wintel boxes go down at least once a month for various reasons.
That is NOT a real OS.
I’m not even going to go into your mentioning of MS Software that works primarily in file formats ONLY MS Software can read. Although I guess I could say this You want Outlook? You can have Entourage if you need to connect to an exchange server. If you don’t there’s Mail.app, Evolution, or any other of a number of great apps out there that DONT HAVE SECURITY HOLES OUT THE @$$. You want WMP9….meet quicktime, much better codecs, much better quality, doesn’t report all of your doings to big brother. Want access? Why….you can use SQL which is unbelieveably more powerful than Access, is free, and is more widely supported.
hey pc user… get a life… what the hell is that all about
Cinque
It only takes one bad Apple to spoil the rest
Wow, that’s pretty weak, oh ye “user” of a hopelessly and helplessly insecure hole-infested conglomeration of bits and bytes. Yeah, I’m devastated that I “can’t even run” those three contributors to the mayhem. I’ll just use Mail and Filemaker and Quicktime and be all the happier and much less worried about a potential virus or worm or other sort of “vicious attack” coming at me every other day or so.
I’m also not worried about Applecorps’ lawsuit against Apple in the least. It’ll get worked out, probably to the mutual benefit of both companies, unlike the way one other, less reputable software company generally does all things litigious, as you apparently are so accustomed to seeing happening. And we all know who I’m talking about, too.
Don’t sweat the ‘PC user’ dude… he is actually a Mac user flirting with reverse psychology to trick us Mac users into PC bashing flame fest.
Never be fooled by imitation
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On a side note:
The Outlook, Access and WMP9 comment was rather amusing. Only idiots would use that crappy software!
he he, funny post indeed 😀
I’m surprised PC user even knew how to use his keyboard without an IT guy to sit their and hold his hand through it.
playtime’s over junior, now turn off the computer like a good little boy and go outside and play.
Please everybody, switch to Windows XP, its fun. Every other day, you too can patch up the OS, that has more holes than swiss cheese. But wait theres more, you can be the proud owner of the blaster virus and much much more. Act now,and you can get today’s security update for FREE!!!
Win xp has earned the reputation of ExtraProblems with me. It’s as
robust as a crystal sword. Looks good, has good features, but when
used it breaks without fail. Long live alternatives, Amiga, BSD,
Linux, MACOS, Solaris, QNX, and many other good ones. Sorry add OS/2
to that.
I find it rediculous that Apple cannot use its own name to put on its own music store. So what if Apple Records has the same name. You have to be pretty old to even remember that Apple Records is even a for real company. I think the beatles and their family should be ashamed of suing a computer company. Remeber dudes, Give Peace a Chance. I am sure John Lennon would roll over in his grave if he knew his company was suing the alternative to the anti-christ.
TJ
hey guys that guy is not a real PC user, he’s just trying to get you going.
he’s another mac guy
I think you are all missing the point he was trying to make. He was pointing out the ITunes is, by its own marketing strategy, a small player in this brouhaha. Marketing to Apple users alone limits its income, but generates interest amongst the apple faithful. Of course he is only saying using the lowest common denominator available to him.
This is one of those push button topics that gets the lawsuits flowing though. Besides, when was the last time that any of the Beatles had done anything worthwhile? John’s long gone, George has recently passed, Ringo is burned out, and Paul has long since sold out. Apple Corps, Dinosaur. If you have watched MTV lately, you know that music has mostly turned to crap, or rap. But then again the end was near for Apple not that long ago as well.
oh and it’s not Apple Records suiing Apple; it’s Apple Corp, the uber corp that includes Apple Records.
They had their trademark first.
Apple Only recently became “Apple” up till 2 years ago it was “Apple Computer Inc”
Which is part of the Issue with the Trademark.
So really Steve was Flirting with disaster for a while, but he might have a plan for dealing with this.
unless…
unless he is just plain Reckless, which is definitly something you could say about D man.
Sebass. Apple Computer Inc. is STILL the name of the company. Check the copyright at the bottom of their site. YOU ARE WRONG. Apple disputes the settlement terms as to the use of the word Apple and a logo of same with Apple Corps fore use as a trademark. Apple’s lawyers determine whether the name and logo can be used on various products not SJ. YOU ARE WRONG. Incidentally, the Apple Corps suit does not seem to object to Apple running a music distribution company (iTMS) or a music player (iPod). They only object to the use of the word Apple in conjunction with them. Wall Street was not impressed with the lawsuit as Apple was up over .50 at 4:30 PM on Friday.
In regards to the lawsuit, that’s pretty silly. It’s the equivalant of a window manufacturer (of the double-hung tilt in vinyl variety) suing Microsoft (of the more holes than a patio bug screen variety) over the Windows name. Two different industries, even if their paths meet every now and then. If you sit a Windows machine next to a window, could you be sued? Perhaps by the RIAA, if you’re 12 years old.
Note that PC has come to mean Windows Personal Computer. Mac not even thought of by most. I tried one of those goofy Imac lamp things. Junk. Some funky, animated-mess task bar ripoff at the bottom. No programs like, yes, the world outside does use Access, Outlook, etc. daily. Now you have a big aluminum cheesegrater that fakes its benchmarks because it can’t match a dual Xeon or even a single Pentium 4. Note that the Pentium 4 has exceeded 3 GHz some time ago and Mac can’t even get past 2.0GHz. Hey, there’s a sucker born every minute – good thing for Apple that 3 of them per hour are also retarded.
I agree with gaspero. What if you made a computerized window that opened an closed on speach recognition? Would Microsoft be able to sue that brilliant window manufacturer? I would think not. Besides, Microsoft is constantly being sued for its bad deads. Microsoft is like the catholic church. Tons of money and can pay off anyone at anytime without admittin guilt. It happened last week with the settlement with BE.
The fact that Microsoft controls 95% of the worlds desktop computers is a frightening proposition. We need more competition. Microsoft is stiffling the growth of the industry.
I would love to see OSX ported to wintel. That would shake up more than a few trees in the forest.
Microsoft is good…. For me to poop on!!!!
Frankly, I think the suits Apple may already have lost to Apple Corp. may have been without merit.
You can trademark or register a name like “Apple Computer” or “Apple Records,” and register distinctive logos for each, but no one can “lock in” a common word like “Apple.”
This also goes to the heart of the challenges about Microsoft trying to prevent anyone from using the word “Windows.” This isn’t an invented term like Kleenex� or Xerox� or Viagra� and courts are getting a little tired — fortunately — of companies trying to gain control of common words in the English language.
Personally, I think a young Apple Computer, Inc. got bad legal advice. Now, with deeper pockets, they should go back and review all these prior deals and reopen the cases if possible.
Another smart thing for Apple to do is to have their attorneys look for countersuit possibilities.
Dr. Smoke. I agree with you. Actually, the lawsuits were settled out of court. They never went to trial as far as I know. Apple is now in a postiion better to defend itself.
I’ve seen the light! M$ guide on how to lose billions of dollars just by buying it’s software. =P puhlease, I regret the day I bought XP. I have the opposite problem most peeps deal with. I use a Mac at work and a PC at home. I’m still kicking myself for buying a PC in the first place. After using OS X for many months in a professional environment, there is no comparison. All the security warnings I get from my IT department I place in the junk mail folder.
That 3 Ghz engine is sitting on a crappy 3 speed tranny… and hardly anyone uses Access anymore… and Outlook is the main gateway into the world of viruses and spam… unless you use it to troll newsgroups.
Comparing PCs to Macs will always be comparing a Hyundai to a Volkswagen. You get from point a to point b, but some of prefer to get there more reliably and in style.
Hey, PC User, enjoy your Windows XP machine!
PC user……please come back when u actually have a concept of what computing is about.
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You mean when I go get my own big aluminum cheesegrater that fakes its benchmarks? Or some fruity iLamp? Or some white plastic toyBook? Ain’t gonna happen. Like I said before, “there’s a sucker born every minute – good thing for Apple that 3 of them per hour are also retarded.”