Last week, iPod maker Apple Inc. has resolved a bitter trademark dispute with The Beatles' guardian Apple Corps Ltd. over use of the iconic apple logo and name. The settlement gives Apple Inc. ownership of the name and logo in return for agreeing to license some of those trademarks back to London-based Apple Corps - guardian of The Beatles' commercial interests - for their continued use.
Right after the settlement, Jobs shocked the industry when he said he would like to drop the digital-rights management (DRM) in selling online music - helpfully pointing out that this would be no different from the many billions of CDs sold every year which contain no copy protection. However, many music record labels have already made it clear that they will not drop DRM.
The current legal process will ultimately hurt iPod sales which is what Apple is all about. So Jobs has taken a strategic decision that now is the time that they can do better without DRM than with.
2 comments:
Thats gr8 new for music lovers and on todays time no one compete with apple in music field because they are everywhere , apple ipod , apple music player , apple with itunes everywhere is only apple .
agreed, waiting on Steve Jobs doing some real action about it.
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