“Apple Corps Ltd. executives did not object to names and logos now under dispute when they were shown an Apple Computer Inc. iTunes Music Store demonstration four months before the public service launched, an Apple Computer attorney said Wednesday during closing arguments in a trademark dispute,” Jeremy Kirk reports for IDG News Service. “The legal wrangling pits Apple Corps, The Beatles’ record label, against Apple Computer. A logo depicting an apple with a bite out of it is at the center of the disagreement. Following closing arguments in the High Court in London, the case will go to Justice Edward Mann, who will decide whether to grant an injunction barring Apple Computer from using the logo for the iTunes Music Store. Justice Mann said as the hearing closed Wednesday that he would probably issue his ruling toward the end of the month, not before the Easter weekend in the U.K. starting April 15.”
“Apple Corps attorney Geoffrey Vos charged that the computer company was a ‘Johnny-come-lately’ to the Apple name, and has deliberately trespassed on a registered trademark. ‘Apple Computer has been trying to take more and more away from us,’ Vos said… Apple Computer has in part deflected the charges by finely describing how its bite-marked apple logo disappears during purchases from the iTunes Music Store. The logo is only used to advertise the iTunes service, not the content, Apple Computer has argued,” Kirk reports. “A ruling against Apple Computer could mean the company would have to change the way its logo is presented in relation to the iTunes application and Music Store. Apple Corps would likely then pursue damages.”
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Hey pog and Eschew Obfuscation, you’re both FUD spreaders. Ironically, just like Apple Corps.
Learn to look beyond the first bloody definition you find in your overly-limited dictionary. Dimwits. (And yaah, that word’s in the dictionary, too!)
HERE, THIS IS JUST FOR YOU TWO:
From Merriam-Webster online:
pedantic
One entry found for pedantic.
Main Entry: pe·dan·tic
Pronunciation: pi-‘dan-tik
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, or being a pedant
2 : narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned
3 : UNIMAGINATIVE, PEDESTRIAN
– pe·dan·ti·cal·ly /-‘dan-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/pedantic
Notice to Apple Corps… God thinks he has first rights to the apple with a bite out of it and he is preparing to sue.
> ‘Apple Computer has been trying to take more and more away from us,’
> Vos said…
How can anyone say that with a straight face? Apple Computer isn’t taking anything away from Apple Corps. Apple Corps is just an organization of high paid executives who seek to extort money from others.
The Beatles should outright repudiate this moronic lawsuit.
Here’s a caricature from our local newspaper, The Gazette in Montreal drawn by Aislin:
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/aislin/0331.html
Turdburg, you’re totally right.
Apple Corpse has carefully avoided the online distribution of Beatles tunes and none of the Beatle catalog is in iTunes. Unless the wheezing Corpse has shown they were going to open a store of their own, Apple Computer is not taking anything away from them. If Apple Computer were selling CDs or owned content, that would be different. But they do no do either.
“”Johnny-come-lately”
yeah, like only 30 fuckin’ yrs ago…a whole 8 years after the decomposing Corpse belched its first undead breath.
“playing TV commercials featuring music on the iTunes Music Store.”
OHHHHH! I didn’t know there was music in an advert for iTunes! I totally changed my mind!
“Analysts say record labels receive the lion’s share of sales of albums and songs, with most of the remainder expended by Apple Computer for the service’s overhead.”
I believe many of us have been saying this – is the putrid Corpse would put their (your adjective here) music on iTunes Music Store, they would make a lot of $.
correction: “IF the putrid”
again…”but they do not do either”
jebus
Hey Funky Dunky–
How is asking what you meant by using the word “pedantic” – in a way it is rarely used – spreading Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt (FUD)?
Here are some other words for you to look up:
pretentious
condescending
wanker