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April 13, 2006

Apple Corps to make Beatles Catalog Available Online

The Beatles are preparing to sell their songs online after years of refusing to take part in the Internet music boom, according to testimony given by the head of their record company. Neil Aspinall, a former Beatles road manager and managing director of Apple Corps said that the company was digitally remastering the entire Beatles catalog, which would pave the way for selling the songs online.

"I think it would be wrong to offer downloads of the old masters when I am making new masters," he said in a written statement submitted to the High Court in London earlier this month. "It would be better to wait and try to do them both simultaneously so that you then get the publicity of the new masters and the downloading, rather than just doing it ad hoc."

A spokesperson for Apple Corps said that the company is preparing to make the Beatles catalog available through online music services. "There's no firm date on any of this at the moment. There are a lot of projects that Apple are working on at the moment," the spokesperson said. - Reuters

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