L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Until a few days ago, Santa Cruz-based BlueBeat was a largely unknown streaming music site. Then the Beatles catalog went on sale -- at a quarter per song -- and BlueBeat became a national headline. A federal court in Los... more info
L.A. Times - Entertainment — Capitol Records this week filed a suit against BlueBeat, which says that songs produced by digital regeneration are akin to songs performed by cover bands and do not run afoul of copyright law.
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Mercury News, California — LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has temporarily blocked two music-sharing Web sites from selling songs by The Beatles and other artists for 25 cents apiece. more info
The Independent — US online music service Bluebeat on Friday said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs. more info
Rolling Stone — As Rolling Stone previously reported, director Robert Zemeckis and Disney brokered a deal that would allow them to re-submerge the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, turning the 1968 animated film into a performance-capture 3-D digital production. What was... more info
Reuters — LONDON (Reuters) - Seven black-and-white photographs of the Beatles sitting on a grassy field, taken by a teenage girl on the last day of filming for their movie Help!, will be sold next week, the auctioneer said.
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Reuters — LONDON (Reuters) - London-based record label EMI has won an injunction against music website BlueBeat.com which it said was selling Beatles songs without its permission.
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