Moreover my point was an economic one. Apple Corps Ltd. assume that digital versions of the music are not currently available and therefore they badly overestimate their bargaining power.
Apple Corp and others are trying to change British copyright law. As it stands, works that are 50 years old lapse into the public domain (so Sinatra, Little Richard, Elvis, etc. recordings are PD over there).
NOW that the relevant British music industry is being affected (the beginnings of the British Invasion and Saint Cliff Richard), they feel it is time to change things.
Without action, those first Beatles albums will become public domain and Apple Corps won’t have as much power.