Apple Corps

Imagine the Beatles on iTunes? "Don't Hold Your Breath," Says Yoko.

Peter Kafka in Media on August 6, 2010 at 6:26 am PT

The latest news in the Beatles-to-iTunes non-story: Still a non-story.

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Finding Closure in The Beatles: Rock Band

Yukari Iwatani Kane, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 21, 2009 at 4:22 pm PT

When MTV Networks’ Harmonix Music Systems developed the videogame The Beatles: Rock Band, it made many small changes to some of the most beloved songs in rock history. All of them were made in consultation with Apple Corps, the Beatles’ management company, but some of the changes have come as a shock for fans.

Apple Challenges Woolworths Over Logo Similarities

John Paczkowski in News on October 5, 2009 at 5:01 am PT

Woolworths Supermarkets describes its new logo as “an abstract leaf symbol” intended to represent fresh food. But to Apple, the stylized “W” looks far too much like its own namesake fruit, which could be problematic should the supermarket chain someday decide to peddle its own brand of consumer electronics. And so Apple is petitioning IP Australia, the local agency that governs trademarks, to reject the Woolworths application for the mark.

Newsflash: Beatles Still Not for Sale Online

Peter Kafka in Media on April 7, 2009 at 8:19 am PT

Hot off the presses from EMI and Apple Corps, the Beatles’ holding company: a press release that goes on for 461 words about plans for yet another repackaging of the Fab Four’s albums–on CDs. And then these two sentences: “Discussions regarding the digital distribution of the catalogue will continue. There is no further information available at this time.” Because why rush into anything?

Beatles-Rock Band Deal Announced With Unprecedented Number of Beatles Puns

John Paczkowski in News on October 30, 2008 at 7:38 am PT

So those reports that the Beatles’ Apple Corps was in talks with Rock Band developers MTV Networks and Harmonix over the creation of a Beatles-themed videogame? True. According to a Beatles pun-riddled joint press release from Apple Corps Ltd., MTV and Harmonix this morning (what, no “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey”?), the companies have inked an exclusive agreement to develop what they exuberantly describe as “an unprecedented, experiential progression through and celebration of the music and artistry of The Beatles.”