Tuesday, May 16, 2006

News: How Apple beat the Beatles. A week after a British judge ruled that Apple is not violating a 1991 agreement with the Beatles' Apple Corps by putting the company logo on the iTunes Music Store, this MDJ excerpt looks at the reasoning behind the decision. [Macworld] comment []9:29:51 PM

Patent Holder Sues Apple Over iPod Software [New York Times: Technology] comment []9:17:29 AM

MTV Wants a Bite of Apple. Should Apple fear MTV's new URGE music service? [The Motley Fool] comment []12:22:05 AM

French concessions on DRM not enough for Apple. Time for Le Crunch Moves by French politicians to soften plans that will force Apple and others to open up DRM to help consumers do not go far enough, industry representatives have claimed. The interoperabilty bill was passed yesterday by the upper house of the French parliament.âo[oe] [The Register] comment []12:15:08 AM

Russian MP3 sales site 'more popular in UK than Napster'. Study claims AllofMP3.com second only to iTunes A Russian company labelled by the music industry as as an "unlawful" operation was nonetheless second only to iTunes as the favoured destination of UK digital music buyers during April 2006, figures from UK-based market watcher XTN Data reveal.âo[oe] [The Register] comment []12:10:35 AM

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