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Beatles Bite into Apple
The Beatles won't just let it be.
The iconic rock band's record company, Apple Corps., filed a lawsuit against Apple Computer on Friday for reportedly breaching a 1991 agreement, which prevented the computer maker from entering the music biz.
The suit, filed in London's High Court, seeks to recoup damages for Apple Computer's trademark infringement with the launch of its iTunes Music Store and iPod MP3 player.
Founded in 1968, Apple Corps. is owned by Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and the estate of George Harrison.
Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs, who launched his company in 1977, had previously admitted that the name was chosen, in part, as a tribute to the Beatles.
As such, the group sued in 1981, and again in 1991, over the corporate name before a truce was established, which was estimated to have cost the computer maker close to $38 million in an out-of-court settlement.
The 1991 agreement also "specified the rights each company would have to use the Apple trademark," according to a statement from Apple spokesperson Katie Cotton.
"Unfortunately, Apple and Apple Corps. now have differing interpretations of this agreement and will need to ask a court to resolve this dispute" continued the statement.
Apple Corps also released a statement to the press saying, "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 prerecorded music from the Internet."
At stake are the millions in sales Apple has made since launching iTunes in April--the online music store has sold more than 10 million songs at 99 cents a pop over the past five months. The suit could also threaten iTunes' future plans. Jobs was set to roll out a version of iTunes for PC users by the end of the year. Until now, the service was limited to Macintosh users only.
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