Less than two months after Apple chief executive Steve Jobs challenged record labels to stop insisting on “digital rights management” copy restrictions, one of the major record labels took him up on the invitation.

I think it’s the right move by Apple and EMI–far,

far better news for consumers than the news some had incorrectly forecast, the arrival of the Beatles’ catalogue on iTunes–and I look forward to seeing how other record labels and other music-download stores react to it. >>>>>>>