Beatles and iTunes Deal ‘Virtually Settled’

Paul McCartney has told Billboard in an exclusive interview that will be published tomorrow that a deal to finally make the Beatles catalog available for sale online is “virtually settled.”

The deal had been held up by a trademark dispute between Apple Inc and Apple Corps, which was finally settled in February.

Apple Hints at Video Rentals Through iTunes

When a shareholder in yesterdays annual meeting, asked Jobs during for high-definition video content on iTunes and asked if his Apple TV could allow him to rent movies, the CEO smiled. “One never knows,” he said cryptically.

“Timing of this is difficult to determine, but we would expect [iTunes video rentals] sometime in 2008,” said PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster, who attended the shareholder gathering in Apple’s hometown of Cupertino, Calif.