Tree on Nostr: Remember when Apple Records (owned by the Beatles) sued Apple Computers in the late ...
Remember when Apple Records (owned by the Beatles) sued Apple Computers in the late 70s over trademark infringement? The settlement was for a sum of money and an agreement that Apple Computers would not enter the music industry. To comply, all of the early Apple alert sound were non-musical things like frogs croaking and ducks quacking.
#twitter #X #trademarks #retrocomputing
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