Bootleggers file lawsuit to get back Beatles' "Let It Be" session tapes

They really want those back?

http://www.examiner.com/article/law...er-ownership-of-tapes-from-let-it-be-bootlegs

 

Bootleggers file lawsuit to get back Beatles' "Let It Be" session tapes


Now I've heard everything....

 

So these guys are suing Apple for Apples property ?
Am I getting this right ?
Suing The Beatles to get "their" tapes ..

 

Irony is a long-existing concept.

 

Indeed...

 

Bootleggers file lawsuit to get back Beatles' "Let It Be" session tapes

 

As it turns out, it's the visual artists who designed the bootleg covers who have a fair better claim on copyright protection.

 

That's rich

 

But they're already back to where they once belonged ...

 

The quote from Neil Aspinall claiming that these tapes had great commercial value is a huge laugher. No way in Hades would Apple ever release these tapes to the public, thus (it could be argued) they have absolutely no value from a commercial standpoint (historical, yes; commercial, no).

The bit about the original seller offering to narc on them for Apple was interesting as well. Reminiscent of when Lewisohn acted on Apple's behalf to recover the Barrett tapes, something which made his name a dirty word in some collecting circles.

 

If courts somehow sided with these nuts, and ownership of the tapes was actually given back, they still couldn't legally release them, right? Apple actually owns the rights to the recordings, and publishing companies own the millions of songs that are played for ten seconds before the band loses interest, right?

 

Publishers could not stop their release as anyone can release published songs. Copyright in the sound recordings could belong to United Artist as the entity that paid for the Nagra recordings to be made out of the film budget, unless ownership was assigned to the Beatles by contract.

 

That website is littered with pop-ups, it took 7 clicks to read one page.

 

Ad Blocker works wonders.

 

Would be nice if you could just copy and paste your articles here though, rather than just the link...

 

Good for the blood too, I hear...

 

This tops the Beatles tribute band suing another Beatles tribute band for using the same name

http://lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jul/14/money-s-what-we-want-and-stop-trading-our-name/

 

So who had legal possession of the Nagra tapes while they were being recorded? Where were they deposited during and after?

Surely this had to have been pinned down legally even before filming started.

Just because a tape has a Beatle voice or instrument on it does not automatically make it a tape owned by Apple.

 

If this goes to trial, I expect a ruling as full of bad Beatle puns as the last sentence of this article.

 

I guess it depends on if they were considered originally stolen property, doesn't say in the article. If the guys purchased the tapes legally, they belong to them. Those type of things come up for auction every now and then.

 

NO NO NO! The Fab Four have worked hard to establish their band name. And they are a true tribute band and even non Beatle songs sound Fab-ish. Their two Christmas albums are classic. For another band to call themselves the Fab 4 is probably designed to confuse the public.
I 'm with the Fab Four on this one.

 

Apple paid for the tapes, as they did for the entire project, that makes a strong case for Apple's rights to the tapes. The only authorized seller of Apple property would be the manager of Apple, as empowered by the board. If these guys didn't buy them from Klein, they have no right to them.

 

Which just so happens to be the one bootleg (2 LP) of those sessions in my collection.