Tag archive: Beatles

Eight months ago ex-Beatle Paul McCartney inked a deal with technology giant Hewlett-Packard to create a private cloud-based media library to provide access to McCartney's enormous collection of music, film, imagery, and music. Today, HP announced that it has launched the library—and while it's only available to McCartney and anyone he wants to share it with—at least for the moment—the company is touting the… Read More

Back in 2009, online music market BlueBeat made headlines by offering Beatles songs for sale for prices as low as $0.25 a track—long before the Beatles finally succumbed to the lure of online music sales and let their music be sold via Apple's iTunes. A court order (followed by an injunction) took Beatles music off BlueBeat in short order, but the record labels concerned over BlueBeat's activities—EMI, Capital, and… Read More

It's been ten years in the making, but now finally official: the Fab Four have arrived into the 21st century. Today Apple began offering all 13 of the Beatles' studio albums for sale through iTunes making the it the first and only online store to carry the Beatles' music. Rumors began circulating yesterday after Apple posted a cryptic message on its website: “Tomorrow is just another day. That you'll never… Read More

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard has announced it has entered into an agreement with McCartney Productions Limited (PML) to create a private cloud service that will host digitized versions of the ex-Beatle's large collection of art, film, video, and (of course) music. Although the entirety of the collection will apparently only be available to Paul and his cohorts, there are plans to make portions of the library available to fans so they… Read More

At a promotion for an upcoming public television documentary about John Lennon, Yoko Ono told Reuters that the Beatles' Apple Corps. isn't not close to making a deal with Apple Inc. about getting the Fab Four's music on iTunes. “There's just an element that we're not very happy about, as people. We are holding out,” Ono told Reuters. “Don't hold your breath…for anything.” The Beatles… Read More

U.S. District Judge John F. Walker has issued a preliminary injunction barring online music sites BlueBeat and BaseBeat from streaming or selling any tracks from EMI artists—and that includes the Beatles, along with popular acts like Coldplay. Record label EMI had filed suit against BlueBeat and its owner Hank Risan for streaming and selling tunes by the Beatles and other EMI artists without the labels' permission. While the vast majority… Read More

EMI will be releasing next month a special collection of remastered beatles albums on an Apple shaped USB thumbdrive. The 16GB thumbdrive will include 14 albums in both 320 Kbps MP3 and lossless FLAC 44.1 Khz 24-bit format (for audiophiles), album artwork, rare photos, 13 mini-documentary films and all tied into a cool flash unterface. EMI will only be releasing 30,000 of these special drives and will they will set you back $280. Look for them… Read More

A federal judge has ordered BlueBeat.com stop selling tracks from The Beatles and other EMI artists pending a hearing in EMI's copyright infringement lawsuit against the site and its parent company, Media Rights Technologies. EMI filed suit against BlueBeat earlier this week, claiming the company had no right to offer music from the Beatles and other EMI artists online—The Beatles in particular have famously withheld their… Read More

The music industry has never been averse to letting its lawyers do the talking, and today bring two more instances of lawsuits filed over the chaffing interface between the music industry and the digital world. Record label EMI is suing the online music distribution site BlueBeat.com for selling digital versions of Beatles' music online without authorization, and rock-pop band No Doubt has filed suit against Activision for using their… Read More

The music industry has been waiting for years for see when The Beatles would release their catalog to online music services…and many thought a deal was imminent when the Beatles agreed to go digital with The Beatles Rock Band. Now Apple Corps and record label EMI have announced another digital Beatles release, but it's not bringing the Fab Four to iTunes or any other online music service: instead, fans will be able to snap up one… Read More

It's September 9, 2009: do you know where Paul is? If you're like untold thousands of Beatles fans, the answer may be on your Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or Nintendo Wii: The Beatles: Rock Band video game is now available worldwide, and the title is expected to be a top-seller throughout the remainder of 2009. The Beatles: Rock Band marks the first time the Fab Four have licensed their music for digital distribution: the Beatles have… Read More

With a little help from the Beatles, Super Mario and price cuts from Sony and Microsoft, the slumping video game industry is hoping for a sales resurrection this fall. The season gets a late-summer start Tuesday, with the release of “Guitar Hero 5,” a game featuring music from the Rolling Stones, Nirvana and other popular bands. Then on Sept. 9 comes the launch of “The Beatles: Rock Band,” which marks the rock… Read More