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Topic: Unofficial Release

4th Feb 2018, 11:16 AM
	TopPopper Member since Mar 2013 2612 Points	Following the 50-year copyright thing, the situation has changed, and I think we need to consider what is meant by 'official release'. To me, it has two different meanings, and that's where confusion comes in. Taking the Beatles as an example, an 'official' release is historically defined as one sanctioned by EMI/Apple - who apparently controlled all the tapes, including unrealesed stuff. But a legal, commercial edition of anything is official in another sense. We just need to get our heads around the fact that multiple labels are now creating 'official' product of their own. It's official in a legal sense - like different publishers printing editions of Shakespeare - they are all 'official' releases, regardless of the company. There's no such thing as a legal but 'unofficial' edition of Shakespeare. It's a changed situation. Coda releases are official in the second sense, but unofficial in the first. If we don't descibe them as unofficial any longer, then we are back to the initial point - unofficial = bootleg.

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