The Beatles followed the Disney/Nintendo school of copyright management, where you just hold onto something valuable for the fear that actually making money off

The Beatles followed the Disney/Nintendo school of copyright management, where you just hold onto something valuable for the fear that actually making money off the thing you own will make it worth less in the future. I don't know, sitting on one's catalog until digital music storefronts are widely established and you've been holding out long enough that the eventual release is a newsworthy event seems like a perfectly reasonable marketing decision if you ask me, typical back-catalog revenue numbers being what they are.