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p2p news / p2pnet: Apple has won the Apple v Apple battle.
Apple Computer, that is.
The Beatles survivors Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and the families of George Harrison and John Lennon, had risked the wrath of an, "extreme fundamentalist religious group, the devoted followers of the great prophet L. Ron Jobs, as Apple Corps goes to the High Court in London seeking multimillion-pound damages against entertainment company Apple Computer over its iTunes music store," said The Inquirer.
The former said the latter had in broken an agreement under which it wouldn’t compete in the same market.
But, "Mr Justice Edward Mann ruled that the computer company used the Apple logo in association with its store, not the music, and so was not in breach," says the BBC.
Thus, iPods and iTunes will still continue to bear the Apple name and logo.
Representing L. Ron, Geoffrey Vos, QC, told Mann in March that Steve Jobs had said downloading music was, "exactly the same as buying an LP in the modern world," says the Guardian Unlimited.
"During the hearing, Mr Vos demonstrated to Mr Justice Mann, himself an iPod owner, how to download from iTunes," and, "Mr Vos chose the 1978 disco hit Le Freak by Chic which reverberated around the courtroom as he pointed out to the judge how many times the ‘apple’ logo appeared on the website screen during the procedure," adds the story.
But it’s not over yet, apparently.
Macworld UK has The Beatles manager Michael Aspinall saying he’ll appeal because, "With great respect to the trial judge, we consider he has reached the wrong conclusion. We felt that during the course of the trial we clearly demonstrated just how extensively Apple Computer had broken the agreement. We will accordingly be filing an appeal."
Also See:
risked the wrath - Apple versus Apple, April 21, 2006
BBC - Beatles lose Apple court battle, May 8, 2006
Guardian Unlimited - Beatles label loses apple logo case to iTunes, May 8, 2006
Macworld - Apple Corps statement: ‘will appeal’, Mat 8, 2006
