Intellectual Property Law
Bizarre Beatles Song-Selling Defense: Techies Created—and Can Copyright—New Tunes
Posted Nov 5, 2009, 04:19 pm CST
By Martha Neil
The music of the Beatles isn't legally available on the Internet. However, a little-known company is not only offering the back catalog of the famous 1960s rock 'n' roll group online but is trying to copyright it, based on what Ars Technica's Law & Disorder blog characterizes as a "entertainingly weird" legal theory.
The theory is explained in the federal copyright action that almost immediately resulted. It was filed Tuesday in the Middle District of California with other music company plaintiffs by EMI Christian Music Group Inc., the company that controls the sale of Beatles music on CDs. BlueBeat and its backing company, Media Rights Technologies, responded yesterday.
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