{"id":3888,"date":"2013-12-18T06:57:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T06:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/12\/18\/the-beatles-set-to-release-rarities-lp-in-copyright-protection-bid\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T06:57:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T06:57:23","slug":"the-beatles-set-to-release-rarities-lp-in-copyright-protection-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/12\/18\/the-beatles-set-to-release-rarities-lp-in-copyright-protection-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles set to release rarities LP in copyright protection bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/04\/Paul%2C_George_%26_John.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"144\" \/><br \/>A new Beatles LP featuring 59 rare and unheard recordings will be released this week in a bid to renew copyright on the works.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from the band\u2019s Apple Records confirmed the release of the material to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-25364624\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> at the end of last week, although the digital compilations (which  includes BBC sessions and alternate takes of famous songs) has not been  officially announced.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The move comes as a result of EU law, which protects songs for 70  years after they are recorded but only if they get an official release.  If not, copyright only lasts for 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>With The Beatles\u2019 debut album Please Please Me having been released  in 1963, it is protected until 2033 but its unreleased session tapes are  not.<\/p>\n<p>The new digital collection of rarities is expected to land on Tuesday (December 16).<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Sony Music released an 86 unreleased Bob Dylan tracks  dating back 50 years in a bid to extend its own copyright. The EU\u2019s  copyright extension to 70 years was only rubber stamped this year, while  a new \u2018use it or lose it\u2019 provision meant that copyright protection  could be taken away if recordings haven\u2019t been used in the first 50  years.<\/p>\n<p>While Universal had to shed Parlophone in order to push its acquisition of EMI Music past EU regulators last year, i<a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/news\/read\/exclusive-universal-will-shed-parlophone-in-uk-but-keep-the-beatles\/051168\" target=\"_blank\">t was able to hold on to The Beatles<\/a> as a group and as individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Beatles LP featuring 59 rare and unheard recordings will be released this week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}