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Topic: Country of Sale vs. Country of Issue with HMV export issues

  1st Nov 2017, 8:22 PM
TopPopper

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xiphophilos wrote:
The database currently lists about two dozen records under the label "His Master's Voice" [Germany] even though "His Master's Voice" records were, for contractual reasons, never sold in Germany ... they were actually mainly sold in Britain, Holland, and Scandinavia, as shown by the nationality of the users of this database who own them, and they couldn't legally be sold in Germany itself.

If they weren't sold in Germany, there's no case for listing them that way. You've identified three countries they were sold in - all in Europe - so I would say they should be listed as Europe. As this appears to apply to everything on the label, it should be changed to HMV [Europe].

People who don't know so much about them will naturally assume they are German releases - I would if I came across one. But if they aren't, they aren't.


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