Old Recordings - A Thought (& a good one!)

Would it be possible (and perhaps more likely) to get the out of print
recordings released in short runs for fans? Like Japanese soundtracks,
Daphnis et Chloe, Bermuda Triangle, etc. Or would this be a legal minefield?

Out of curiousity, roughly how many members are there on the list?

AlpHa DrGNfR 0m3gA


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Dave Blowers wrote:
>
> Would it be possible (and perhaps more likely) to get the out of print
> recordings released in short runs for fans? Like Japanese soundtracks,
> Daphnis et Chloe, Bermuda Triangle, etc. Or would this be a legal minefield?
>
> Out of curiousity, roughly how many members are there on the list?
>
> AlpHa DrGNfR 0m3gA
>

My guess that would probably be BMG's option. What I've been seeing
happen is Japanese labels, especially since the recession let old
releases sell out and then usually repackage them and reissue them again
later. The bad news is Tomita surely won't get so much support since
he's left BMG for Denon.

Every once and a while someone is able to reobtain the rights to an old
release. Sakamoto for instance did this on "B-2 Unit" which I guess was
a favorite of his, because it showed up reissued on his then current
label (he's changed labels twice since, its still with that then current label).

Then there is Wendy Carlos who has gotten the rights to nearly all
non-soundtrack albums back. While never publicly announced, *my theory*
is Carlos and legal counsel brought up possibly dishonest bookkeeping
that Columbia made regarding the albums to Columbia's new owner, Sony.
The album's ownership rights were out of court compensation.

Finally I note that there are reissue labels, a fairly new phenomonon in
Japan. One, P-Vine is doing a, what seems to be new strategy of jointly
re-releasing old albums in partnership with the owner label, which is
different from the more usual approach I think of liscencing the album outright.

Being that all the classical albums except Bach Fantasy are owned by BMG
U.S. ("Back to the Earth" was the final BMG U.S. album), the American
office, not the Japanese office would call the shots on liscencing.

Certainly much vintage EM has been liscenced and reissued by a new party.

nick