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They did work it out: Beatles to iTunes

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War is over. 
After years of legal wrangling, years after the digital invasion, the Beatles are finally coming to iTunes.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that, effective 7 a.m. Tuesday West Coast, 10 a.m. in the East, Apple’s iTunes Store will begin carrying the music of the Beatles, according to people close to the situation — in the process fixing a hole in the world’s dominant music-retailing service and offering iTunes users access to one of the sturdiest musical franchises in recorded history.

“They’re arguably the biggest band ever, and their music is now on sale on what has become the biggest music retailer,” said The Journal’s Ethan Smith. “It was a little weird that they didn’t have it on the iTunes store.”



The Apple-Beatles war has gone on in varying degrees for more than 30 years, predating the iTunes era; the earliest salvos concerned trademark infringement claims that, resolved, led to new squabbles when the iTunes store first launched.

Now, three weeks before the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s death, the oldest feud between rock music and technology, all the fussing and fighting, my friend, ends Tuesday morning.

                                                        Read the full Journal report here

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