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Apple Exec Testifies in Court Case
Monday, April 3rd, 2006 at 2:05 PM - by Staff
Eddy Cue, Apple's vice-president of iTunes, on Monday took the witness stand in the case filed against his employer by The Beatles' Apple Corps, according to an IDG News Service story. When asked about the iTunes Music Store's offering of exclusive tracks, he replied: "We have tracks that are temporarily exclusive to us in the Music Store, and so do most of the other services."
As IDG reporter Jeremy Kirk noted, last year Paul McCartney permitted the sale of live performances of two Beatles songs on the iTMS. However, when John Lennon's solo work went for sale on several online music stores this past November, the iTMS was excluded.
A witness for Apple Corps, Woodstock Systems LLC CEO James Hoffman, also testified on Monday regarding Apple's use of a proprietary format to handle digital rights management of iTMS offerings. The trial opened last Wednesday and is ongoing.
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