Beatles lose Apple court battle
 

Beatles lose Apple court battle

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4983796.stm

Good.

Greedy gits.

LOL...

Both companies are greedy ... it's the nature of companies .... money...

But in this case the Beatles were just being petty.

i was just about to post this haha , im really suprised, i thought they had a cut and dry case

I wonder how many other companies that share names will now start branching out into their competitors fields

petty ? how do you mean , the beatles let them use the name as long as they didnt do anything music related. , then apple waited a few years lied and did what they promised they wouldn't do..

like if i was a "plumber" and wanted to open up a plumbing store called "thuhun" so i paid "thehun" to get his permission to use his name for my plumbing store as longas i didnt open anythinbg related to XXX , then i turned around and opened a website called THEHUN , dont you think thehun has a right to be pissed

I don't think they should be allowed to use generic words that way in the first place. If you use a generic word for your company, you should be forced to waive the right to sue another company later who wants to use a generic word too. Maybe that's a little more extreme, but you get the idea.

Like if they want to call their company 'Company', they have to deal with it all the others who use it too.