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By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr
There's a rather confusing article about online Beatle music at BBC.com, not hard to understand per se, but difficult to penetrate as far as understanding everyone's motives is concerned. In a nutshell, the Beatles' Apple Corps music company has apparently decided not to facilitate legitimate digital music sales online. If so, that's one bargaining chip of Steve Jobs' that's been taken off the table.
Apple Computer is being sued by Apple Corps, you understand, over a long-ago secret agreement Steve Jobs made with the Beatles' music company. We think but do not know for sure that he agreed to keep Apple Computer out of the music business in return for being allowed to keep the name (Apple). People have speculated that bringing the very attractive Beatles music catalog to iTunes would be good for all concerned and help settle the current dispute, but apparently this isn't going to happen, at least not right away.
The BBC article simply says the following;
A spokeswoman for publishers EMI told BBC News Online: "The Beatles have chosen not to put their music online.I do not know their reasoning."
There are several ways to interpret this if you have the time or inclination, but we think it goes something like this:
a) Most Beatles songs ever recorded are already available on fileswapping networks.b) The last thing Paul McCartney et al. need is more money.
c) The only people who want more money are greedy corporate goons and others eager to take money from music fans, so ...
d) "The Beatles" (i.e. Paul, Ringo, and assorted heirs) have told the suits to buzz off.
The John Lennon we remember would have wanted it that way.
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