Re: Apple's lawyer: iTunes sells data, not music

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

Apple computer don't have a leg to stand on. Look at all their advertising 
for iTunes, they aren't selling a "data transmission service", they're 
selling music. That's why it's called a "music store", not a "kilobyte 
store".

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Richard M. Smith wrote:

> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060330/tc_nm/media_apple_dc_3
>
> LONDON (Reuters) - Apple Computer (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) opened its defense in
> London's High Court on Thursday against charges by the Beatles' company,
> Apple Corps Ltd., that it had violated a 1991 trademark agreement by moving
> into the music business. 
>  
> Apple Computer lead counsel Anthony Grabiner argued that the market-leading
> iTunes music store was primarily a data transmission service, permitted by
> the agreement.
>
> "Data transmission is within our field of use," he said.
>
> Apple Corps, owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon's widow Yoko
> Ono and the estate of George Harrison, has sued Apple Computer twice before.
>
> The 1991 out-of-court settlement, which included a $26 million payment by
> Apple Computer, set out areas in which each party would have exclusive use
> of their respective fruit-shaped logos.
>
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