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9th Feb 2018, 6:02 PM
	mojofilter Member since Jul 2012 1441 Points	Many of these releases on the Coda Publishing label are of recordings that have previously circulated for decades on bootlegs. Namely, audio recordings made off the soundtrack of TV programs and concert films, and poor audience tapes of concerts, or concerts sourced from recordings made by a radio station, and material recorded off the radio. None of these are licensed from Apple, nor have they been released in any other legitimate form. (Apple compiled their Live At The BBC sets from bootlegs.) Yet other discs that Coda is releasing are full of content pirated right off the official EMI / Apple CDs, and studio outtakes that have been bootlegged since the late 1980s by labels such as The Swingin' Pig, Yellow Dog, Vigotone, Tobe Milo and many others. I think it opens up a can of worms if you want to call a Coda CD that has the soundtrack of "Blackpool Night Out" or "Philadelphia 1964" unofficial releases, when they have clearly been on dozens of bootlegs for decades. Being released in a country where the copyright laws are different from the UK or US doesn't necessarily mean that these often mediocre-sounding tape dubs are any more legitimate than they ever were. I don't believe Apple owns the rights to recordings that were made by ATV or ITV or the BBC. I've never even seen the issue of copyright ownership of the soundtracks of TV shows featuring The Beatles addressed before. The Complete Ed Sullivan Shows were bootleg recordings on Trade Mark Of Quality and Wizardo vinyl and Yellow Dog and Great Dane and Bulldog CDs and all the others. It's still a bootleg on the Coda label. I think that, no matter how pretty the artwork is, I would have to call them bootlegs. Not to mention that they found all this stuff for free on the internet.