That's a lot of good information. I don't know much about the law in England, but in the USA, while that wouldn't make it legal, it would make it almost impossible to prosecute.
---Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Gray Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] UK Censorship 2008/12/9 DESLIPPE, MICHAEL CIV DCMA CIV DFAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is this something still in production? I was under the impression this > was no longer being manufactured and was a piece of history. The image was the original album cover in 1976. When released, there was a brief kerfuffle over it - no-one claimed it was illegal, I believe, but a lot of people said it was really tasteless, and the band themselves sort of agreed. It was reissued with a different cover, as often happens. Early versions continued to circulate, of course, as always happened with any reissued LP. But... never underestimate the appetite of the market for "special" versions of albums. In 2004, a box set (really just a largish case) was issued, with a black outer cover and containing two CDs, each individually cased, one of this album and one of another. The copy of the album *inside* this box set had the original artwork (the offending image), and it was replicated on the back of the box set. So, yes, it was freely available through a retail channel, and has been for four years. How widely available? It's unclear. I checked two high-street stores in a provincial town (Oxford) and didn't find it - but one of them didn't have any copies of Scorpions albums at all. In London, a reporter from a television news program was able to walk into a large chain store and buy one with no problems. When I checked yesterday, all three major UK online CD retailers were offering it for sale, and it appeared to be in stock. This had been publicly on sale - in chain retailers, not just in specialist stores - and "in print" by the record company, for four years. -- - Andrew Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
