Judge stops 2 Web sites from selling Beatles songs
A federal judge has temporarily blocked two music-sharing Web sites from selling songs by The Beatles and other artists for 25 cents apiece. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter on Thursday blocked the sites BlueBeat.com and Basebeat.com and owner Hank Risan from selling copyrighted songs by The Beatles and others. Music company EMI Group filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday seeking an injunction against the sites, claiming they were engaging in music Piracy. EMI claims the Web sites have infringed...

Judge stops 2 Web sites from selling Beatles songs
A federal judge has temporarily blocked two music-sharing Web sites from selling songs by The Beatles and other artists for 25 cents apiece. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter on Thursday blocked the sites BlueBeat.com and Basebeat.com and owner Hank Risan from selling copyrighted songs by The Beatles and others. Music company EMI Group filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday seeking an injunction against the sites, claiming they were engaging in music Piracy. EMI claims the Web sites have infringed...

Judge stops 2 Web sites from selling Beatles songs
A federal judge has temporarily blocked two music-sharing Web sites from selling songs by The Beatles and other artists for 25 cents apiece. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter on Thursday blocked the sites BlueBeat.com and Basebeat.com and their owners from selling copyrighted songs by The Beatles and others. Music company EMI Group filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday seeking the injunction. Neither site was online Friday. EMI claims the Web sites have infringed on its copyrights to numerous...

EMI wins injunction against US website for selling Beatles tracks
London, Nov 7 - ANI: Brit music company EMI has won a temporary injunction against a US website for allegedly selling Beatles tracks without permission. The songs were pulled from the Internet after a copyright violation lawsuit was filed at a Los Angeles court on November 3, to prevent the sale of unauthorised content by Bluebeat.com, reports the Daily Star. The website had allegedly offered the tracks for download at discounted prices even though the Fab Fours music is not licensed for...

Judge stops 2 Web sites from selling Beatles songs: PHOTO
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. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter on Thursday blocked the sites BlueBeat.com and Basebeat.com and their owners from selling copyrighted songs...

Meet the Beatles' USB drive; EMI files suit against BlueBeat for selling Beatles downloads
While The Beatles may not yet be on iTunes, they're still embracing new models of distribution. After making their music available in a video game in September, The Beatles will soon be releasing a limited edition custom-made Apple-shaped USB drive containing all audio and video found in the recent re-mastered stereo box set. But it will cost you: The USB drive will be selling for $279. The content on the USB drive can also be had for $219, but the higher price allows fans to avoid the...

Court orders Beatles songs to be taken off website
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. A federal court in Los Angeles has issued a temporary restraining order against the site after EMI, The Beatles' record label, took legal action against it on Tuesday. BlueBeat.com had been offering Beatles songs for 25 U.S. cents each, around one quarter of what they typically cost on the dominant iTunes site. Available before...

Court orders Beatles songs to be taken off website
LONDON (Reuters) - Record label EMI has won an injunction against music website BlueBeat.com which it said was selling Beatles songs without its permission. A federal court in Los Angeles has issued a temporary restraining order against the site after EMI, The Beatles' record label, took legal action against it on Tuesday. BlueBeat.com had been offering Beatles songs for 25 U.S. cents (15 pence) each, around one quarter of what they typically cost on the dominant iTunes site. Available before...

Beatles - Emi Wins Injunction Over Beatles Tracks: PHOTO
Songs by The Beatles have been pulled from the Internet after record label bosses at EMI won a temporary injunction against a U.S. website for allegedly selling the tracks without permission. A copyright violation lawsuit was filed at a Los Angeles court on Tuesday (03Nov09) to prevent the sale of "unauthorised content" after Bluebeat.com allegedly began offering Beatles' tracks for download at discounted prices. The Fab Four's music is not licenced for Internet downloads, and last year (08)...

Judge Bars Web Site From Selling Beatles Downloads
A federal judge handed a preliminary victory to EMI Group Ltd. after the London-based music giant sued a Web site that sold music by The Beatles and other major acts without permission. The Web site's lawyer said he would base his defense on a purported technology called "psychoacoustic simulation." Judge John Walter of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in a temporary restraining Thursday order told Media Rights Technologies Inc .'s Bluebeat.com ...

Website illegally selling Beatles mp3s launches unusual defence: PHOTO
An online music store caught selling Beatles mp3s without permission has removed the band's music from its services, but denies it was breaking the law. Record label EMI won a court injunction against Bluebeat.com on Friday, preventing Bluebeat.com from continuing to sell music by EMI artists. Bluebeat.com had been selling The Beatles' music for US$0.25 a song, a quarter the price most online music stores charge for mp3s. The Beatles are yet to licence their music to any online music store,...

Thinking of Buying The Beatles Online? Think Again: PHOTO
A Los Angeles federal court has issued a temporary restraining order against music website bluebeat.com, which according to The Beatles record label EMI, was selling Beatles songs without its permission. The little-known music site has been offering Beatles favorites for just 25 cents. Compared to $.99 on iTunes, that's quite a deal. Not to mention that you can't but a Beatles song on iTunes for any price.   Prior to the injunction, BlueBeat offered an extensive list of Beatles tunes from...

LEGO Rock Band vs. The Beatles Rock Band: PHOTO
The Beatles Rock Band , the music-based video game that lets four people sing or play plastic instruments along with the Fab Four, has been perhaps the most acclaimed game of the year. And many of its rave reviews have declared it the one game that will finally bridge the video game generation gap, bringing parents and children together to play. But sliding onto the market with much less fanfare is another game in the Rock Band line that I believe is even more deserving of such a title: LEGO...

Beatles photos from Help! up for auction
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.

COMME des GARÇONS X The Beatles | First Look: PHOTO
> News have been floating about and people have been talking about an upcoming collaboration between Rei Kawakubo’s COMME des GARÇONS and the legendary The Beatles . The Beatles/Comme des Garçons collection will comprise of 10 travel bags, five tees and four shirts. Not wanting to roll out an excessive collection with unncessary products that might in time come to resemble a The Beatles souvenir shop, Rei Kawakubo decided to keep the concept strong and centralized around one...

The Beatles: Robert Zemeckis Would Like Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney to Be Part of Yellow Submarine Remake
Hollywood's quest to ruin every okay older movie has caught up with Beatles nostalgia, as Robert Zemeckis, the guy behind that awful looking A Christmas Carol and other awful-looking movies, has announced plans to remake Yellow Submarine , an animated movie The Beatles didn't even lend their voices to. Zemeckis would like to change that last bit, saying he'd like Ringo and Paul to be involved: "We haven't gotten the word yet on the two surviving Beatles, whether they're interested in doing it or...

EMI Win; Bluebeat Forced To Take Down Online Beatles Catalogue: PHOTO
It was just two days ago when we wrote on these very pages about the EMI label suing online music site Bluebeat due to them selling The Beatles back-catalogue for as little as 15p per song

Emi Wins Injunction Over Beatles Tracks
Songs by The Beatles have been pulled from the Internet after record label bosses at EMI won a temporary injunction against a U.S. website for allegedly selling the tracks without permission.

Limited Edition Beatles Apple USB: PHOTO
Oh Sugar! This is so cool… Come December 8th only 30,000 of these will be produced and released to the public.

Check out Demi's Favorite Songs!
Check out Demi's Celebrity Playlist here! Demi Lovato, the multi-talented singer/songwriter/actress, took a break from filming the sequel to "Camp Rock" with The Jonas Brothers to create a celebrity playlist of the songs that inspire her. Enjoy Demi's picks, including cuts from John Mayer (who worked with Demi on her new album), MGMT, Coldplay, Billie Holiday, Carney, Sufjan Stevens and more.

EMI wins injunction over Beatles tracks
Songs by The Beatles have been pulled from the Internet after record label bosses at EMI won a temporary injunction against a U.S. website for allegedly selling the tracks without permission. A copyright violation lawsuit was filed at a Los Angeles court on Tuesday (03Nov09) to prevent the sale of "unauthorised content" after Bluebeat.com allegedly began offering Beatles' tracks for download at discounted prices. The Fab Four's music is not licenced for Internet downloads, and last...

Beatles Ban Takes Effect at BlueBeat
In a contentious court battle launched by record label EMI, the brazen owner of online retailer BlueBeat has begun complying with a new court order to stop selling Beatles music online, after offering a quirky defense that he owns the copyright to the songs at issue. In a message sent from his iPhone earlier this week, BlueBeat owner Hank Risan told his attorney that he -- rather than EMI or Apple Corps -- is the rightful owner of The Beatles tunes for sale on his Web site, according to a...

Beatles photos from Help! up for auction
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. Gwyn Blanchard, then a 13-year-old student, trudged half an hour in the rain with a group of friends to the set of the Fab Four's second film, hoping for an autograph, but wound up being invited for a chat with her idols. "We knew that the filming was going to happen that day. Being...

Beatles werent that good, says Paul McCartney
Washington, November 07 - ANI: Sir Paul McCartney has said that The Beatles were not that good when they first formed. The singer added that he understood the reason why record label Decca declined to sign the band in 1962. "We obviously weren't that good. We were formulating it all, the Sun quoted him as saying in an interview with Xfm's Ian Camfield. He added: "You wouldn't have thought we were that great. You'd have turned us down if you were a record company. And they did - Decca...

Top 10 Girl Songs
Need a song to impress your girl? Plenty of songwriters throughout history have been writing odes to the special ladies in their lives, making the women swoon over the soul tunes and doo-wop lyrics. Here are AOL Radio listeners' Top 10 Girl songs -- a call out to the classic '50s and '60s days of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons and more -- featuring every gal, from the 'Brown Eyed Girl' to the 'Surfer Girl.' 10) Eddie Holman - 'Hey There Lonely Girl' Did you know? Based on the...