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The Beatles Go Digital... To the Surprise of EMI, Apple, The Beatles, and Everyone Else...

Source: The Daily Swarm - Headlines

Nov 04, 2009

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Variety:

Santa Cruz, Calif.-based BlueBeat.com apparently began marketing the Fab Four tracks—hitherto unavailable from online music merchants—at lowball prices late last week.

EMI, which distribs Beatles recordings via an agreement with the group’s music company, Apple Corps, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the company Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles. Company also issued a curt statement: “EMI has not authorized content to be sold on BlueBeat.”

In a twist ripe with irony, representatives of Media Rights Technologies [owners of Bluebeat] recently wrote to the Librarian of Congress asking that the webcasting licenses of such firms as iTunes, Pandora and MSN Music be revoked on piracy grounds.

“MRT will not condone copyright infringement nor risk infringement liability for our customers and partners. Until Apple is fully compliant with government regulations, iTunes will not be permitted on our sites,” Risan said at the time.

Wired:

After buying the remastered version of Abbey Road from the site last Friday, we asked EMI and the Bea

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