FWood is correct. It's unbelievable to me that some moron at the patent office allowed Apple to trademark a chord.
That is the musical equivalent of somebody trademarking an exclamation point.
Agreed. I can think of at least 25 songs off the top of my head that use F# or has it for its key, whether major or minor, not to mention the thousands of pieces of work going back to the 17th and 18th centuries.
This now potentially invalidates any rights to any song written in Gmaj/Em, Dmaj/Bm, or any key that includes Gb/F#maj as a note. Good modern examples:
Hotel California (Eagles).
Fade to Black (Metallica).
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana).
Beverly Hills (Weezer).
Classic examples:
Adagio in B Minor (Mozart).
Violin Concerto #2 (Paganini).
Mass in B Minor (J.S. Bach).
Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky).
Let's also throw in those written in F#maj/D#m:
Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss).
Piano Sonata Op. 78 (Beethoven).
Barcarolle (Chopin).
What's the big deal about this? Oh, only 350 years of
PRIOR ART. Now, Apple could basically sue anyone who used that note, based on this trademark. Now,
a note in a musical scale is the intellectual property of a computer company.
This is
*not* good.
BL.
