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Bluebeat to battle EMI over Beatles songs

The Beatles perform in 1964 at the Olympia in Paris. US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs.

AFP - Saturday, November 7

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - - US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs. More »

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