Roger Friedman for Fox News reports that Apple may soon be sued by the Beatles over the iTunes Music Store.
“Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs was such a Beatle fan that he named his company after the record label.
But the Beatles, who are notoriously protective of their rights and quite litigious, weren’t so happy with Jobs.
In 1981 they made him sign something agreeing never to go into the music business in order to keep a name they had trademarked. …
But then in the mid-1980s, Apple Computer started producing music files and software. It had to pony up $26 million when the Beatles sued, and again promised not to go into any more music businesses.
.Fast forward: Since that last agreement in 1991, Apple has changed its tune.
It has the iPod and iTunes. There was talk it was thinking of buying Universal Music Group.
