Apple v. Apple is over, for good

Yesterday computer company Apple announced that it had gotten the full rights to the Apple name from the old record label of the Beatles.

So the lawyers of the label will no longer be suing the computer company over the similarities between the names of the two firms.

Steve Jobs will not be receiving any more lawsuits from them every time he rolls out a new music-related product or service, as was the case in the past.

Apple recently shortened its corporate name from Apple Computer to simply Apple, in recognition of the fact it was now active in many computer, software, accessory, Internet, and music/video entertainment services. Apple is not just a computer company any more.

Steve Jobs also had a lot of Beatles music and album art installed in the library of the iTunes application he was demoing at MacWorld back in January.

Perhaps this was a none-too-subtle way of indicating that some positive steps were in the offing back then toward bringing the two corps together on friendly terms.

Based on comments legal representation for Apple Records made a couple months or so back, the music of The Beatles might find itself for sale at the iTunes Store sometime soon.