Michael Jackson and Sony Keep Beatles Off iTunes

Today’s musicians are lucky. They can operate without a record label. The Beatles were not so fortunate.
The company that owns the rights to a vast majority of The Beatles music catalog has questioned reports that the Fab Four have cut a deal with Steve Jobs.
Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the joint venture owned by Sony and singer Michael Jackson, has thrown cold water on newspaper stories out of London that The Beatles catalog would soon be available on iTunes. A spokeswoman for Sony/ATV Music Publishing told CNET News.com that the reports are “untrue.”
Sony/ATV is a pretty good source. While EMI Group owns …read more