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25th Apr 2021, 6:37 PM
	Fokeman I used to have a good memory but now I can't re Member since May 2011 5096 Points Moderator	Stephen Harris wrote: So its presence is more of an indicator in case the record goes on to be sold/issued in Scandinavia then? Yes, exactly. That's what these mechanical copyright organisations do. They collect royalties from public performance of any record in any country. If you buy a record designed to be sold and played in Germany it will have the German performance rights organisation printed on the label GEMA, in France it was SACEM or BIEM. It was not the same as Purchase Tax which existed in the UK early in the 1960s. Then the Record Company had to pay the tax just to make the record. The stamp (like a postage stamp) showed that the Purchase Tax had been paid but this was only necessary when the print run went above 100 records (you could get away with about 105). Under this threshold number no tax needed to be paid. This allowed small run, low budget organisations to slip in under the tax requirements.

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