Karl Miller: >I have what for me is the most magnificent performance ever given of >the Shostakovich 8th Symphony. It features Koussevitzky conducting the >Boston Symphony. Fortunately now, in Europe, it can be released. The >cost of releasing it here in the US would, as far as I know, require >permission from the Boston Symphony... Objectively, it seems to me >that the BSO is entitled to it rights...yet, who wins? The orchestra >gets nothing when it could get some negotiated percentage of the net, >and those who might find value in the Koussevitzky performance can't >hear it, unless it is released in Europe and then they can buy it via >Amazon UK and have it shippped to them in the US...I hear it is scheduled to be released in Europe. Stupid laws. I take it from this that it is legal in the US to own a CD which contravenes US copyright, as long as it was not bought in the US. If that's the case, the laws are indeed stupid! Richard Pennycuick