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Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Reader mick alerts us to a legal fight in Australia with Apple working hard to stop computer firm Macpro from being able to keep its name . The company has been in business since 1983, prior to Apple introducing the Macintosh (which happened in early 1984). In other words, Macpro should have priority on the name. When Apple tried to register a trademark on Mac Pro, Macpro opposed...
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Reader mick alerts us to a legal fight in Australia with Apple working hard to stop computer firm Macpro from being able to keep its name . The company has been in business since 1983, prior to Apple introducing the Macintosh (which happened in early 1984). In other words, Macpro should have priority on the name. When Apple tried to register a trademark on Mac Pro, Macpro opposed...
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AfterDawn.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
EMI and Apple Corp. (not to be confused with Steve Jobs' Apple) have jointly the announced the release of a limited edition Beatles Stereo USB Apple which will be available worldwide. The 30,000 USB flash drives will include the "critically acclaimed re-mastered audio for The Beatles' 14 stereo titles, as well as all of the re-mastered CDs' visual elements , including...
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kingblind (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Variety: Santa Cruz, Calif.-based BlueBeat.com apparently began marketing the Fab Four tracks—hitherto unavailable from online music merchants—at lowball prices late last week. EMI, which distribs Beatles recordings via an agreement with the group’s music company, Apple Corps, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the company Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles....
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The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Variety : Santa Cruz, Calif.-based BlueBeat.com apparently began marketing the Fab Four tracks—hitherto unavailable from online music merchants—at lowball prices late last week. EMI , which distribs Beatles recordings via an agreement with the group’s music company, Apple Corps, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the company Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles....
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The Four-eyed Journal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Okay, I’m still drooling over the recently released digitally re-mastered The Beatles’ catalogue on CD last September yet here I am again about to drool some more because come December 7 of this year, the very same catalog would be released in an Apple-shaped USB drive that sells for a jaw-dropping $279.99! I shit you not, [...]
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Reader mick alerts us to the story of a small eight-person startup that makes a popular app for backing up your iPod music, which had been called "iPodRip" until Steve Jobs and Apple's lawyers got involved , demanding the company cease using the name and hand over its domain. It's even told the guy that even if he rebrands his app, he can't even say that it's the app "formerly...
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Reader mick alerts us to the story of a small eight-person startup that makes a popular app for backing up your iPod music, which had been called "iPodRip" until Steve Jobs and Apple's lawyers got involved , demanding the company cease using the name and hand over its domain. It's even told the guy that even if he rebrands his app, he can't even say that it's the app "formerly...
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Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Once upon a time, Apple computers didn't come with keyboards or monitors or even cases. But they often came with a personal letter from Steve Jobs , like the one included with this Apple I , now available starting at $50,000. That's the starting eBay bid for this motherboard. According to the original invoice included in the auction package—dated December 7, 1976—he also...
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Selectism.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
How could we not fill our CdG quota for the month with their The Beatles Collection. I wish I could have been inside Apple Corp. offices when this deal went through (almost as cool as having been in the Henson offices when Supreme came calling). Well, the collection’s standouts to most are the bags and [...] This article originally appeared on Selectism.com . Comme des Garçons...
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[FashionRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
How could we not fill our CdG quota for the month with their The Beatles Collection. I wish I could have been inside Apple Corp. offices when this deal went through (almost as cool as having been in...
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MTV Newsroom (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... brand A Bathing Ape (or simply Bape) is the latest to jump on the craze. They collaborated with Apple Corp. Ltd — the Beatles' multimedia corporation — to release a capsule collection line of clothing featuring the band . The line will feature a number shirts and sweaters as well as a coin pouch and will probably cost a pretty penny. Apple Corp also released info...
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MEMORY PALACE (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... entire stereo Beatles catalog without permission was that he — and not EMI or the Beatles' Apple Corp — owns these sound recordings, because he re-recorded new versions of the songs using what he termed 'psycho-acoustic simulation.' Risan faces perhaps millions of dollars in damages under the Copyright Act. And copyright attorneys said his defense was laughable and carries...
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Destructoid (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
In case you own The Beatles: Rock Band and for some reason don't know what Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sounds like, Harmonix, MTV Games, and Apple Corp. would like to remind you. That's what this little trailer is for, as the remaining tracks from the historic album will be available for Xbox 360 and Wii tomorrow, for 1080 MS Points, or 160 MS Points/200 Wii Points per song....
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Anil Dash (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... to ask permission of anyone. I've outlined a few of the ways that big players like Facebook, Apple, and News Corp are potentially breaking the "small pieces loosely joined" model of the Internet. But perhaps most threatening of all are the natural monopolies created by Web 2.0 network effects. One of the points I've made repeatedly about Web 2.0 is that it is the design of systems...
