These releases are similar in a lot of ways to the Italian Joker and Blues Encore releases and like those were somehow distributed globally. Mainly through independent record shops as imports of long out of print releases. I agree that these are semi-legal but the intended market is very hard to determine because these and those mentioned above were aimed at a global niche market of collectors and appeared in shops all over the world as imports. I think the intention of those that made them was to access a global market. However, the International category doesn't fit well and in fact Redpunk nothing other than pirate/bootleg really fits as a country. But as you say they are sort of legal in that they were produced in places where publishing and licensing was relaxed enough to get away with it.
Whatever you decide is fine by me but these are as difficult to place a CDs with there incongruous markets and places of manufacture.
I bought this LP sometime in the eighties. According to the note on the cover, the American origin of the record seems obvious: "Domino Records, 607 West 12th, Austin 1, Texas - USA". But an entry on the label says GEMA, which points at Germany as country of origin. So I tend to suppose that this album was a semi-legal release, probably from Germany. As far as I can see there was no Domino label in the USA in the eighties. [Moved from Notes originally posted by Trester.]