Fans of "The Beatles" will be getting their Christmas presents from the band this year. As per CBC, at exactly 12:00am on Christmas eve, their music catalog will be made available on 9 of the most popular streaming apps.
The beatles.com website first announced the catalog release stating:
"On December 24 at 12:01am local time-here, there and everywhere-The Beatles' music is available for streaming worldwide."
They then ended their announcement with a holiday greeting stating:
"Happy Crimble, with love from us to you,"
As per the website, the catalog would contain 13 of their remastered studio albums and four compilation albums, which would be available on these streaming apps.
- Apple Music
- Deezer
- Google Play
- Microsoft Groove
- Amazon Prime
- Rhapsody
- Spotify
- Slacker
- Tidal
December 24 at 12:01am local time, The Beatles' music is available for streaming worldwide: https://t.co/99cigizLza pic.twitter.com/42vZSNGVHG
— The Beatles (@thebeatles) December 23, 2015
In addition to CBC's report, it was stated that Apple Corps Ltd. who manages "The Beatles" affairs, delayed their music online streaming services. Though Apple may have delayed the availability of the band's songs on streaming devices, it was stated that the Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with the widows of John Lennon [Yoko Ono] and George Harrison [Olivia Harrison] agreed to make the band's songs available for streaming.
Back in 2013, fans were in for a treat when rare tracks from "The Beatles" were made available for a short while, just for them to extend copyright. Media lawyer for the Goodman's David Zitzerman explained how the copyright policies work during an interview with CBC News.
"In the European Union, the terms of copyright for sound recordings, records if you like, was 50 years from the making of the record. There was a big lobby going on for a few years ago in the EU to extend it out to 70 years. The European Union agreed to extend it, but there was a condition: the condition was use it or lose it. You had to release the recording commercially in order to get the extension,"
