It looks like Apple Corps and the newly redubbed Apple have finally buried the legal hatchet, which may pave the way for the Beatles catalog on iTunes. Maybe all of the people who have downloaded pirated versions of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in the years the companies have sparred will delete those files, and buy new ones.

Or, maybe not. But, you have to give Apple Corps credit for coming to their digital senses. The revenue’s going on the Web; they couldn’t have held out forever.