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2nd Nov 2017, 1:46 PM
	ppint. Member since Aug 2012 6393 Points	the uk majors, emi (which included hmv), decca (which included london), and pye, all produced editions of records intended primarily or only for export to unspecified countries where they did not operate wholly- or partially-owned subsidiaries°, or were unable to convince the local managers of companies who licenced use of their labels' names, or any of their usual friendly local music corpses into licencing the rights, in countries where they held the recordings' rights. - philips [uk] could have done so, and may have, but the usual major manufacturing centre for the philips group would've been eindhoven, iirc - off the cuff, yr hmbl srppnt. can only think of philips [uk] export editions they manufactured for island records, for sale in scandawegia. oh. yes. i've recalled a couple of philips [uk] export copies. but they must've been relatively infrequent - or else their distribution restrictions pretty closely observed. - this was not a phantasmal phenomenon invented in the 21st century ce for the convenience of 45catters & lpcatters; nor for record collectors, neither; it was a real-world occurrence that 45cat+lpcat should follow in recording correctly, or else be lying to itself, its members and casual browsers of the sites - and be liable to confuse any and everyone looking at items on these sites that were export editions, but whose existence as such 45cat+lpcat no longer recognises. - in the absence of a subsidiary or additional cataloguing field dropping down, in which to check off the market territories in which export copies (- and maybe also yeurppean copies, and/or internecine strife copies -) have been bought - it might be a good idea to suggest in "the guidelines" that such countries of purchase be listed initially in "comments" upon the (single, ep, lp, double lp, bootleg) item in question, with a view to later transferring the information into the item's notes: section. ° - or in some cases did, but where the market size was not thought sufficient to justify its own, specific market, edition