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The Beatles Music Set To Go Digital. Legally!
Friday, 14 April 2006 Written by Stereoboard.com
ImageThe entire Beatles back catalogue looks set to be available soon to download, and legally.

The Beatles have been the biggest name artist known to turn down the luring advances of the online music market, but that now looks to have changed with Apple Corps decision to remaster the original recordings readying for download services.

In a written statement for the High Court, Apple Corps' Neil Aspinall said "I think it would be wrong to offer downloads of the old masters when I am making new masters."

"It would be better to wait and try to do them both simultaneously so that you then get the publicity of the new masters and the downloading, rather than just doing it ad hoc."

A spokeswoman for Apple Corps confirmed Aspinall's statement, and said that the company is preparing to make the Beatles catalogue available through online music services.

"There's no firm date on any of this at the moment. There are a lot of projects that Apple are working on at the moment," she said on Thursday.

With the booming online legal music download market now big business, with sales tripling to $1.1 billion in 2005, the iconic 60's group can no longer hold-out while illegal downloading of the back catalogue is rife.

Apple Corp have been in a trial with Apple iTunes over an agreement made some 15 years ago. Apple Corps, owned by Beatles Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and the estate of George Harrison, have accused Apple Computer of violating a 1991 agreement by using the Apple name and logo to sell music downloads through its market-leading iTunes Music Store.

The trial ended on April 6th, with a decision from the judge due after Easter.
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