Wippit sells mostly mp3s so hopefully this will mean we'll get Beatles on mp3 too. I read EMI are going to be the first big record co. to do it. Perhaps this is what they were waiting on?
I saw this on Record Of The Day. There won't be any Beatles MP3s on Wippit - the press release might be referring to the 'Classic Beatles' album by Robin Hill and Peter Wiltschinsky.
That's not the Beatles if others do it! That's covers!The Beatles-Apple-Capitol-Emi wont comcemt as too many leagal yet. Anthology was almost a no way project.
If the legal ever gets settled--maybe it will hit Mp3 & I tunes.
But why would they concernt of some buisness making money from their songs! This is like a video store--They buy the miove & rent it out 150 time.Then sell it & buy a newer for the store. At 80 pents a down laod. 1000 down loads is now into pounds,
Now if these get 100,000,000 downloaders--they get all this money & the Beatles would get only the 1 time buy. I realy don't suport down loads for that.
The bright side of it--if the Beatles actualy put songs on i tunes & mp3,this may open up for ring tones on cells. Right now its just cheep notes some one did with an organ or piano. Not my idea of Beatles when others play the real artist.
I'm just sitting here --watching the wheels go round! I realy love to watch them roll!
Legal service don't just pay once like a video store! Thay have to pay for each download sold. About 70% of each sale goes back to the record companies.
Unless of course you're refering to the Russian services who are neither legal and don't pay a cent.
Darkhorse, I saw your spam on Topix.net too. Didn't convince me there either. V. poor. Try harder.
Also, you said the Wippit press release was 'very misleading'. You must have been extremely misled by the story, because there was no press release. Just a title on their page. That's what sparked the story and the speculation. V. Poor. Go to the back of the class.
THE BEATLES' record label EMI has denied reports the iconic British group's back catalogue is to become available online, after an internet download site hinted at the songs' impending sale last Friday (09MAR07). Apple Inc was expected to get permission to sell The Beatles' classics on its iTunes download store after reaching an agreement with the surviving members of the Fab Four - SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY and RINGO STARR - over the use of the Apple name last month (FEB07). But EMI insists a deal has yet to be finalised, despite UK download site Wippit reporting on Friday, "The Beatles available for download." The HEY JUDE hitmakers are the last major pop act to withhold their catalogue of songs from digital stores like iTunes and Napster.
Beatles online at last? EMI and Apple say they plan 'exciting' new digital offering
"LONDON: Record company EMI Group PLC said Sunday it planned to unveil "an exciting new digital offering" with computer company Apple Inc., raising expectations that The Beatles' music catalog is about to be made available through Apple's iTunes online music store.
EMI said it would hold a news conference Monday at its London headquarters with its chief executive, Eric Nicoli, and Apple boss Steve Jobs "and a special live performance."
The company gave no further details.
EMI has been The Beatles' record label since the early 1960s.
The Beatles have so far been the most prominent holdout from iTunes and other online music services, and Apple's overtures to put the music online were stymied by a long-running trademark dispute with The Beatles' commercial guardian, Apple Corps. Ltd.
In February, Apple Inc. and Apple Corps resolved their legal feud over use of the apple logo and name, paving the way for an agreement for online access to the Fab Four's songs.
Apple Corps was founded by the Fab Four in 1968 and is still owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, the widow of John Lennon and the estate of George Harrison."
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