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Maybe Yoko has no idea what she is talking about? Despite her supposed statement last night that the collected works of the group she destroyed (sorry, sorry, I kid) would be on iTunes later today, that may not be the case.

No less prestigious a source as The Financial Times is reporting that EMI, the company that controls the money side of the Beatles collection, is saying “Tosh”.

“Conversations between Apple and EMI are ongoing and we look forward to the day when we can make the music available digitally. But it’s not tomorrow,” Ernesto Schmitt, EMI’s global catalog  president, told the FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson.

The holdup is EMI’s concern about the prospects for piracy, Paul McCartney told The Observer.

The ex-Beatle said he, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison wanted to release the music on iTunes, but EMI, which owns the master recordings, objected.

On top of that, the FT is stating as a fact that Apple will be trotting out their Cocktail system of music packaging at the Sept 9th event, which is a possibility that has sort of fallen by the side of the rumor mill the last couple weeks.

The product, code-named Cocktail by the record labels, will include interactive lyric sheets, photos and other virtual extras aimed at replicating and improving on the old experience of opening a vinyl record sleeve or CD boxed set filled with trinkets.

Surprisingly, the FT also says that Jobs is NOT expected to appear at the event, and indicates that that is the consensus opinion of most analysts. I have read exactly the opposite from many analysts, so that may call into question FT’s take on things.

Of course, at this point one set of rumors is just as creditable as the next, so we will see in a few hours.

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