John Lennon's solo music is available for download on iTunes by Corina Ciubotaru

iTunes, Apple Inc.'s leading music store, is about to gain yet another victory in the quest to bring music to the iPod people. It has recently signed a deal with the guardians of John Lennon's work and is about to make his solo work available for download; it has been on sale on other sites for quite some time but without much success. Apple is getting closer to publishing The Beatles' catalog, after having signed a similar deal with Paul McCartney in May. Ringo Starr's solo music will begin selling later this month, but George Harrison's work is yet to be made available in online stores. As a bonus, 4 albums and the collections "Anthology" and "Working class hero" will include videos for a limited duration of 30 days. The John Lennon songs will also be ready for download in iTunes plus mode, featuring higher quality and no DRM, as part of EMI's catalog. The songs became available for download after a settlement in the trial between Apple Inc. and Apple Corps, The Beatles' company. There has been a long history of lawsuits between the two because of the name; Apple Corps gave Apple Inc the right to use its name in 1991 as long as they kept away from the music business but when iTunes and iPod appeared onto the scene, the battle was on again. Their latest agreement in February says that Apple Inc has all the rights to the name, but must license some use of it to Apple Corps. The agreement was amicable and this is hardly a surprise, as Steve Jobs is one of the most famous Beatles fans.

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by Corina Ciubotaru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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