quoted 2 lines what about singles? I always see domestic and import side by side.
> what about singles? I always see domestic and import side by side.
> Thus isn't a "violation of copyright law" but full lenght cds are?
It is not a violation of copyright law to sell domestic and import CDs side by
side. It is a violation of copyright law to import non-US copies of releases
that are copyrighted in the US if you don't have the permission of the US
copyright holder.
Importing CDs and selling CDs are two different things, and how heavily these
laws are enforced depends on how much pressure the RIAA is bothering to put on
US Customs at any given time. Unless there's a big anti-import push on (as
has happened at least twice in the last ten years), there will usually be
plenty of non-US copies of the new Depeche Mode single flowing into the US
for record shops to sell right alongside the domestic version.
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