The Beatles sue Apple computers

[SlartyBartFast]

Well, look at how long the World Wrestling Federation was around befor the World Wildlife Fund decided to sue.

Actually no. Once again there was an agreement between the two or quite some time before teh wrestling finally change their name to WWE.

[SlartyBartFast]

They could, but once they shared markets in which it was evident that customers could be easily confused and unable to readily and easily differentiate between the two then there was an issue.

Exactly.

The original settlement between Apple and Apple involved a cash payment and an agreement that Apple Computer would not enter the entertainment/recording industry.

Well, now it's iPods, iTunes, media players....

[onedude36]

There's a girl in my class called appolonia. Yes shes as ugly as her name.
Think she'll be sued?

[teufelhunden]

But both do business as "Apple".

ACME is widely used because it's just an adjective!

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionar...ionary&va=acme

And here you all thought it was just a fabricated name used in the Roadrunner cartoons.

Noun?

[Bluestrike_2]

Grrr! It didn't post!

Anyhow, this is nearly two years old. The suit was filed in the UK in 2003. It was settled in September of 2004. We are a little late to the party here. In fact, it's boarded up...

Why did we post such old news ?

[thecavemankevin]

ed, you are correct on most respects, but michael only owns half of their music catalogue from what i remember. He aslo pissed off Paul, because paul gave him the idea to do it.

true, but the theory is that his record lable set him up to fail on his most recent able in order to put him into a financial burdon (perhaps they are behind the obviously false criminal charges) . That way he would be forced to sell the rights back to either his lable (which is the same as the beetles) or back to Sir Paul. I also was told he owns the rights to most of Elvis's songs..but i don't know if that is true.

Grrr! It didn't post!

Anyhow, this is nearly two years old. The suit was filed in the UK in 2003. It was settled in September of 2004. We are a little late to the party here. In fact, it's boarded up...

Why did we post such old news ?

because i just read a NEW news article about this....are you sure it is not still on going, or perhaps this lawsuit is for the US...???