Here in Dumblawsuitland, an age old legend came to rest this week, a lawsuit that has lasted as long as time if you’re definition of time is the last 30 years.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — For the third time in nearly three decades, iPod maker Apple Inc. has resolved a bitter trademark dispute with The Beatles’ guardian Apple Corps Ltd. over use of the iconic apple logo and name.
But while the truce announced Monday appeared to finally bury the long-simmering animosity, music lovers will still need to wait for the right to buy such songs as “Love Me Do” or “Hey Jude” on Apple Inc.’s iTunes online store.
The announcement - made jointly by one of the world’s largest music sellers and one of history’s most beloved bands - was silent on whether the catalog of Beatles songs will become available for download any time soon.
Just imagine if the Beatles won and where we would be without with the Apple logo? We’d still be paying three times more for a computer that only works with 10 percent of the total software market, but it would probably have something stupid on it like a banana.
It also seems that the Beatles, a group that has professed peace, love and free expression for forty years, would such a long legal grudge against Apple. Hey, when it comes right down to it, aren’t we ALL fruit?
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1 CandyMan // Mar 14, 2007 at 9:43 pm
If you don’t like, do what any real MAN would do. JUST DEAL WITH IT! It is just a name, names are nothing special, you liked the name so much, then should have just patoned the damn thing. It will save a lot of time and money. You morons!!!!
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