Beatles music on iTunes soon?
Can’t purchase you Beatles on iTunes? That is, after years of negotiations, setbacks, and false starts, about to change. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will imminently announce its acquisition of the band’s legendary catalog, famously absent from the digital market place since, well, digital was born.
Spokesmen for Apple and EMI refused requests for comment, and insiders state that label EMI could still renege, but if the deal does go through it should be big for both parties, as well as consumers.
It would also bring to a close a decades-long antagonism between the band and the brand–the former accused the later of infringing on its Apple Corps logo trademark with its own apple icon. (The case was finally resolved in 2006, 28 years after its first filing).
Terms of the deal are still unknown, and may or may not be revealed when Apple makes a much-touted announcement tomorrow morning at 10am EST/7am PST.
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