Apple Computer is being sued by the parent company of the Beatles, Apple Corp, as a result of the former's foray into the music industry via its iTunes service.
The computing firm has faced and lost two legal challenges by the music company, the first of which took place in 1989-90, and resulted in an out of court settlement (in favour of Apple Corp), and an agreement that in exchange for being permitted to use the name, Apple Computer would not put its name to products for use in the recording or reproduction of music.
The second legal wrangle came years later, when Apple Computer developed PCs which allowed music to be played via attatchablw speakers.
In all, according to a Fox News report, the computing firm has been obliged to pay out around $50 million in lost lawsuits, a fact which prompted an Apple insider to observe recently that:
'When it first happened with the iPod (Apple's MP3 player), we said, 'What could they be thinking?' They knew we had the agreement, and that we'd won a lot of money from them already.'
According to Fox, the suit was filed in London's High Court, and served on Apple Computer in California last week.
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