This makes for an interesting read
news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-1...92-93.html BlueBeat is owned by a company called Media Rights Technologies
.... MRT claims that it didn't post the exact Beatles recordings. Instead, it posted "psychoacoustic simulations," then added simple video content to them. This constitutes a new audiovisual work, and isn't covered by the existing copyrights, MRT argues. In fact, MRT even went so far as to apply for copyrights on the "new" works!
(lol)