People who have done business with the group and its corporate entity, Apple Corps Ltd.
Apple Corps spokeswoman Elizabeth Freund confirms that discussions are under way to make Revolver, Sgt.
For the uninitiated, Apple Corps' logo is of a ripe green Granny Smith.
Last year the company was sued by Apple Corps, the Beatles' recording company, over its entry into the music business.
Founded in 1968, Apple Corps controls certain rights related to the Beatles recordings, although the recordings themselves are owned by EMI.
Lennon described Apple Records and its parent company, Apple Corps, as a place where anybody with a good idea could get funding.
When they do go online, it won't be a low-profile launch: Bet on EMI Group and Apple Corps launching formidable marketing campaigns.
Apple Corps' lawyer Geoffrey Vos pointed back to the original agreement, saying that Apple Computer's music distribution business "was flatly contradictory" to its terms.
On Thursday London-based Apple Corps launched proceedings in the High Court in London and New York's Supreme Court against EMI Records and Capitol Records, respectively.
In time, as chief executive of the Beatles' company, Apple Corps, he acquired a chef and a dining room at his office in Savile Row.
Mr. Aspinall was replaced as Apple Corps' CEO by Jeff Jones, a former executive of Sony Music's well-respected Legacy division, which handles back-catalog releases for Sony Corp.
The group started moving with a bit more alacrity following the 2007 death of Neil Aspinall, the long time Beatles confidant who ran Apple Corps, for many years.
Moreover, Apple Corps is also planning a long-needed overhaul of the Beatles CD catalog with remastered sound, something that might hold greater appeal for older listeners than downloading.
Apple Corps , the Beatles' music company, said it would appeal a judge's ruling to allow Apple Computer to continue displaying its multi-coloured logo on its iTunes digital music site.
Apple Corps, which depicts a green apple as its logo, argued the computer-maker had breached a 1991 agreement that limited the use of each other's symbols to music and computing respectively.
"We have tried to reach a settlement through good faith negotiations and regret that our efforts have been in vain, " Neil Aspinall --who heads Apple Corps--was quoted as saying in a media report.
But lawyers acting on behalf of Apple Computer said "even a moron in a hurry" could see the difference between iTunes and a record label like Apple Corps, and the fact that Apple Computer distributed music didn't make it a record label.
The record label said in a statement that it would be appealing the High Court judge's decision: "With great respect to the trial judge, we consider he has reached the wrong conclusion, " said Neil Aspinall, manager of Apple Corps in a statement.
While Apple Computer was free to make programs like iTunes, London-based Apple Corps said it had to stay clear of the music business if it was going to use the logo of the tangy fruit with a neat bite out of its side.
Apple Corps , the record label set up by the Beatles, is adamant that Apple Computer has inched its way onto its business territory with iTunes, saying that the 1991 pact has been violated through the online music store's use of the Apple mark.
It was the alarming success of Apple Computer's iPod and iTunes music store that helped prompt the latest challenge from Apple Corps, although the two companies have been sparring ever since George Harrison spotted an ad for Apple Computer in a magazine in 1980.
Apple Corps, which was created by The Beatles in 1968, took on Apple Computer in the High Court in September 2003 over claims that the computer maker's iPod portable player and iTunes Music Store violated its trademark agreement to steer clear of the music business.
It was only when the Fab Four set up their own record label, Apple Corps, in 1968 (and incidentally laid the groundwork for another predictably name-based lawsuit) that they took on the rights to their subsequent catalogue of songs and shared the royalties between the four band members equally.
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