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Beatles-iTunes deal may come Monday
Two months after a major roadblock to the availability of Beatles songs on iTunes was lifted, Apple and Beatles distributor EMI plan to announce Monday an exciting new digital deal.
and music label EMI Group Plc plan to announce an exciting new digital offering, EMI said Sunday, a move that could involve putting the Beatles music catalog online.
Currently, no Beatles songs can be downloaded via online music services. EMI has been the distributor for the Beatles since the early 1960s.
The news event follows the settlement in February of a long-running trademark dispute between Apple Inc., which recently changed its name from Apple Computer Inc., and the Beatle's company, Apple Corps Ltd.
This cleared away a major hurdle for selling the Fab Four's songs on Apple Inc.'s iTunes online music store.
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The Beatles are high-profile holdouts from Internet music services such as iTunes, but it also emerged during a trial last year that Apple Corps was preparing the band's catalog to be sold online for the first time.
At the high-profile launch of the Apple iPhone in January, Steve Jobs raised hopes that the band could be about to go digital when it played one of their songs and used a Beatles' album cover to grace a giant on-stage screen behind him.
Beyond any potential deal with EMI involving the Beatles, Apple and EMI could also be working on a means for eliminating restrictions that prevent unauthorized duplication of digital music. Earlier this year, Jobs called on the world's four major record companies, including EMI, to start selling songs online without copy protection software to thwart piracy known as digital rights management (DRM).
A live webcast of Monday's press conference, which will feature a special live performance, will be available at http://www.
emigroup.com beginning at 8 a.m.
EDT.
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