Comments on: Will Activision Beat iTunes to the Beatles? And Who Cares?

By: sky

sky — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:38:09 +0000

@Nigel, you may be thinking of the legal battle that the record label Apple Corp (owned by members of the Beatles or families) had against Apple computers. The Beatles lost and had to pay court fees, but Apple computers doesn’t own the label.

Also, Michael Jackson bought most of the rights to the songs, but sometime in the 90’s, Sony worked out some 50/50 type deal for rights ownership.

I’m sure everyone was dying to have that cleared up.

By: Chowder

Chowder — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:34:23 +0000

@Nigel…though Michael Jackson owned the rights to the Beatles music…and Paul was trying to buy the rights back from him or something like that….I shut up now…

By: sky

sky — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:47:27 +0000

I am a huge Beatles fan, and yeah, I don’t really care. In general, I’ve started buying used CD’s and just ripping those (to try to ween myself off of torrents).

The only time I ever use iTunes is for a soundtrack song or some single that I am too embarrassed to walk into a record store and purchase.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:43:55 +0000

Don’t Apple own The Beatles’ label now?
My guess is either iTunes first, or both at the same time.

By: Brandon Martinez

Brandon Martinez — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:48:08 +0000

Honestly, and this is just opinion of course, I’ve never really cared for the Beatles.