On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Lazlo Nibble wrote:
quoted 10 lines Isn't Italy one of the countries with less restrictive bootleg laws?> > Isn't Italy one of the countries with less restrictive bootleg laws?
>
> They were; they recently changed their laws under international pressure,
> though. (They give much less copyright protection on live performances than
> most international copyright conventions prefer, hence the many many
> grey-market live discs out of Italy over the past few years.)
>
> Real BOOTLEG bootlegs, on the other hand, were no more legal in Italy than
> anywhere else, so that market isn't going to be affect much by changes in
> that country.
Are you sure about that? Quite a few years ago there were lots of pirate
copies of LP's by Throbbing Gristle and 23 Skidoo that were produced in
Italy. Really *blatant* pirate editions of standard issue LP's such as
"3rd Annual report" etc.(not live Lp's) produced by Base Records. The
word going around at the time was that TG couldn't do anything about it
because of the laws in Italy at that time with respect to bootlegs.
Of course the situation could very well have changed since that time.
Tony