Negotiations: The Beatles finally on iTunes?
Apple’s iTunes Music Store has come to be the biggest seller of music in the digital age with many of the most popular and influential bands offering their tracks and albums. There are still some notable holdouts that aren’t on the iTunes store including The Beatles. Negotiations have been ongoing to get The Beatles music on iTunes with some of the issues revolving around a legal battle between Apple Inc. (the company behind the Mac and the iTunes store) and Apple Corp. (the holding company that The Beatles set up to manage their music catalog). In February of 2007, the two companies set aside their legal issues and were moving forward with negotiations to bring Beatles music to the iTunes store. Sir Paul McCartney, one of the surviving members of the band, has now come out and said that negotiations to add The Beatles to iTunes have stalled.
McCartney told BBC News, “We’d like to do it. We are very for it, we’ve been pushing it. But there are a couple of sticking points, I understand.” EMI was the label behind The Beatles during the bands heyday and owns the tracks. However, the label needs the permission of Apple Corp. to release the band’s music in new formats. A spokesperson from EMI said, “We have been working hard to secure agreement with Apple Corps to make the Beatles’ legendary recording catalogue available to fans in digital form. Unfortunately the various parties involved have been unable to reach agreement but we really hope everyone can make progress soon.” McCartney didn’t comment specifically on what exactly EMI wanted Apple Corp. to agree too that it wasn’t willing to offer. In these sorts of negotiations, the sticking points typically revolve around money.
Source: DailyTech
Comments(14)
I see.
Pathetic. Beatles are gone.
too funny. The beatles are probably the most widely available digital music around. Just not legally!
Best band of all time!
jew lawyers at it again…
I can’t think of a more appropriate site to post such news
i thought michael jackson owned the rights to the beatles catalogue – ?
Jackson was forced to sell off his rights to the Beatles catalog to Sony to cover his debts, back in May. In an attempt to avoid bankruptcy.
And Sony has had long standing partnerships with EMI.
aha thanks 4 the info matchstick!
itunes news on a rls site…think about that for a moment.
Any real Beatles fan would’ve already digitized their entire library countless times…
This is just a ploy to get more money (I think Paul is still hurting from that divorce settlement- 25 Million pounds is a good bit of money)
What’s the odds that Yoko nono is involved in blocking the deal?
are they a punk band from a long time ago?
Only a moron pays for any kind of music. anybody and i mean anybody with a computer can get s much free music as they like.