OT: Apple V Apple. Legal lunacy?

[Jeffrey Reynolds]

this has gone back and forth with apple corps beginning by suing apple 
computer for the name. that one ended up with an agreement apple 
computer wouldn't get into music. then it flared up again with apple 
doing some midi stuff a while back and was renegotiated some and i 
thought i remember something when itunes was starting that they were at 
it again some.

but with the success of itunes and garage band has probably gotten 
apple corps believing some more of the apple pie should be theirs again 
and as most large contracts written in legalese there is a lot of room 
for folks to try lawsuits.

every time i have put a contract through lawyer approval they always 
object to things being written in plain english that lay things out in 
black and white (even though it is completely legal and binding). They 
always seem to want the wiggle room for a lawsuit even when you the 
client want a nice clean straight forward document and the lawsuits 
could be against you!

jeff

On May 13, 2005, at 9:19 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
wrote:

> Actually, isn't it the other way around?  It sounds like Apple Corps is
> suing Apple Computer over distributing music.