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Via the BBC

Apple Corps manager Neil Aspinall said: “With great respect to the trial judge, we consider he has reached the wrong conclusion.

“We felt that during the course of the trial we clearly demonstrated just how extensively Apple Computer had broken the agreement.

“We will accordingly be filing an appeal and putting the case again to the Court of Appeal.”

Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs said: “We are glad to put this disagreement behind us.

“We have always loved The Beatles, and hopefully we can now work together to get them on the iTunes Music Store.”

The launch of the iPod, a portable digital music player, in 2001, and its iTunes music store two years later, prompted the latest battle.

Just to go on the record, I think Jobs will offer the Beatles a substantial cut of sales to get them exclusive to iTunes… After all, Neil Aspinall let slip a couple of weeks ago that they are (finally) remastering the catalog and that they would be doing downloads of the remasters…