Apple, Music Labels Face iTunes Antitrust Case
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European Commission antitrust hearings over iTunes price concerns begin in late September.
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InfoWorld - Apple and four of the biggest record companies have until Wednesday to submit their written response to&#160;antitrust charges that they restricted online sales of music&#160;in Europe.
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Apple Corp. and Apple Comp. - aka the Beatles and the maker of the Mac - are reported to be on the verge of ending their legal dispute over the latter&#39;s right to operate in the music market.
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InfoWorld - AÂ class-action suit filed against AppleÂ alleges the company unfairly uses technological restrictions with its iPod line and iTunes Music Store to beat out competitors.
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Best Buy, in cooperation with SanDisk and RealNetworks, is the latest company to join the growing list of competitors to Apple&#8217;s iTunes music service.
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The European Commission ended its&#160;antitrust investigation into Apple&#160;after the company agreed to reduce the price of music downloads from its iTunes Web site in the U.K., the European Union&#39;s antitrust regulator said Wednesday.
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Apple Computer Inc. will pay $100 million to rival Creative Technology Ltd. to settle patent lawsuits over technology for navigating through songs on the popular iPod digital music player, the companies said Wednesday.
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Blog: The separate lawsuits both involve copyright violation; one alleging that Apple used a photograph in promotional materials without permission, and the second charging the company with selling a potentially "copycatted" song in the iTunes Store.
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LONDON -- Apple Computer&#39;s three-month-old European iTunes service came under attack Wednesday from Britain&#39;s Consumers&#39; Association, which asked the Office of Fair Trading, a business watchdog, to investigate why the service&#39;s prices are higher than
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Settling an antitrust case brought by European regulators, Apple agreed to align the prices on its iTunes digital music store in Britain with those in Continental Europe.
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Apple has responded to a midnight Wednesday deadline in relation to antitrust concerns over the pricing of songs on its iTunes online music store across different European countries. The European Commission has expressed concerns about Apple setting unfair iTunes pricing prohibiting users in one country from downloading music from a website intended to serve another. A European commission spokesperson said: "They answered yesterday and we are studying [the response] carefully at this point."
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Apple computer is facing an inquiry by the Office of Fair Trading after it was criticised for selling music downloads to UK customers at higher prices than in other European countries.
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EMI and retailer Fnac face legal challenge over antipiracy technology that blocks discs from playing on some devices.
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Though neither side is calling it a quid pro quo, Apple Inc. has agreed to drop the price of iTunes music downloads in the U.K. and, in return, the European Union's antitrust agency ended its probe into the U.S. company's pricing practices.
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Apple Computer, maker of the iPod music player and online iTunes Music Store, is likely to be forced into a multimillion-pound payout to Apple Corporation, the Beatles&#39; management
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Several rivals of Apple Computer Inc.   AAPL.O plan digital music devices to work closely with their   own online music services, just as Apple's iPods and iTunes do,   The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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Computer Giants Apple are facing the biggest legal payout in history as they once again battle their courtroom nemesis, also named Apple.