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Whoa! Santa Cruz Company in big trouble for copying Beatles music.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110107031643/https://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/bluebeat-claims-to-own-new-copyrights-to-old-beatles-songs/

"A federal judge on Thursday ordered a Santa Cruz company to immediately quit selling Beatles and other music on its online site, setting aside a preposterous argument that it had copyrights on songs via a process called “psycho-acoustic simulation.”"

Pleadings are up on the website too.

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