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quoted 4 lines Apparently Rising High has put an import ban on Global Chillage since
>> Apparently Rising High has put an import ban on Global Chillage since
>> Astralwerks is releasing the CD in early 1995.
>>
>> Out of interest, is this legal for Rising High to do this? quoted 9 lines This sounds wrong to me. I'm sure it's Astralwerks that put the import ban
> This sounds wrong to me. I'm sure it's Astralwerks that put the import ban
> on GC (why in the world would Rising High want to close out a market?).
> Besides, RH would have had to have put an *export* ban on it. As for the
> legality of it, it happens all the time - if a company has the exclusive
> right to market and distribute a release in a given country, and other
> companies are deliberately going against that company's wishes in marketing
> and distributing it themselves, those other companies might find themselves
> in for a lawsuit - regardless of whether the first company chooses to
> exercise its right to market immediately.