More corporate copyright capers. The pure bashment anarchy enjoyed at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on the opening day of Apple vs. Apple as QC Geoffrey “Loudmouth” Vos, resplendent in what excited journalists took to be an Adidas hoodie, chopped from the classic disco of Chic’s Le Freak to the big street hot riddims of Coldplay’s Speed of Sound while waving Hunter S Thompson’s pump-action wordage in the air -
the music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.
- gave way to the tired realisation yesterday that iPods were now ordinary, that this was just another squabble between big corporations over copyright lucre. Mr Justice “Notda” Mann cut short an explanation from the lawyers of how Apple’s iLife suite works - “I’ve got it and I use it” - and thereby opportunities for any further zeitgeist-defining or comedic legal sitcom moments.
- Daily Mirror
