Apple Files For The “iTunes Live” Trademark
Apple Files For The “iTunes Live” Trademark
Posted 05/09/2010 at 7:29pm
| by Justin Kerr
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Sifting through the mountains of Apple patent filings is about as much fun as watching paint dry, but a new service dubbed "iTunes Live" actually managed to catch our attention. The iTunes store has just about any pre-recorded song you can think of, but one area where it lacks is in the live concert department. Sure you can find the odd professionally mastered concert recordings in the archive, but the truly unique b-sides just never seem to find their way into the store. Well, if the details of the patent filing and the catchy trademark hold true, this might just be about to change.
The "iTunes Live" patent pertains to two separate classes.
1.) Online retail store services in the field of entertainment featuring prerecorded music, audio and audiovisual content.
2.) Entertainment services, namely, arranging and conducting of concerts and musical performances.
Presumably this could mean Apple is planning on hosting more live performances, and producing content that is unique to the iTunes store. This could be a response to the growing success of other online mp3 marketplaces including the Amazon Music Store. Now that everyone is DRM free, the best way to win over consumers in the long run is with exclusive content.
Would your favorite band in a live concert convince you to go hang out at an Apple store?
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CentiZen
May 10, 2010 at 11:16am
the only thing that would get me in an Apple store would be dream theater. anything else wouldn't be worth hanging around Apple fanboys. I might catch stupid from them.
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Caboose
May 10, 2010 at 10:23am
Oh hell no!
I'm waiting patiently for the Amazon online music store to open in Canada...
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Fefe
May 10, 2010 at 12:44am
Hmm, probably not, I would rather buy the actual cd if it was a favorite band. I only use iTunes to add/remove songs from my ipod, and listen to samples of songs.
Neufeldt2002
May 09, 2010 at 8:29pm
I installed itunes once, it tried to take over my computer even after I told it not to. I then tried to uninstall itunes, that was a mistake. After a reformat and reinstall I will NEVER install anything apple again.
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Vegan
May 10, 2010 at 6:17am
"it tried to take over my computer even after I told it not to."
I'm trying to figure out what that even means.
Neufeldt2002
May 10, 2010 at 9:00am
What that means is that it tried to take over file associations from other programmes ie photo, music, video etc. I have my own prefered applications that I use, I only needed itunes for one thing, to convert a file for someone. A programme that does not listen to what I want I consider a virus as it is changing things and breaking things without my permission escpecially when it has the file associations listed when setting up. Forgot to mention the hooks it also puts into your internet connection, very wrong in my book.
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