Lone Hiill Reissue Program

[montg]

I´m not certain about US law, but in Europe, only commercial acts of importation (with the objective to resell the goods) violate intellectual property laws. Someone who imports the goods for his own use (i.e. very limited quantities) is legit.

If that applies in the US, a US store breaks the law by importing the european CDs and reselling them (which is a commercial operation), but a private US person who orders the CDs from a UK retailer is legit.

Thanks for the information. Here is the applicible US law (I think).

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[felser]

I think that it's a myth these days that Japanese CDs are expensive. The way to get them is to buy them directly from Japan, as many on this board do (from Hiroshi Tanno of Early Records in particular), in which case they are not expensive at all. There are many CD reissues priced at 1500 yen for example, and even if they have a higher price of say 2345 yen, that's fully comparable with many domestic CDs. Plus I've never had to pay duties when getting shipments from Mr. Tanno, which certainly helps too!

Same here. I usually order 3-4 CDs at a time, and the final cost per disc including shipping (no customs taxes) is around 20 Euro, which is half the price many european stores are asking for the same discs.

Different market conditions in the US, where CD reissues were going for $8 to $10 each for the past 15-18 years, so the 20 euro average cost represents more than double the past normal going price.

Edited January 28, 2007 by felser

[Claude]

20 Euro is the total cost for a midpriced japanese import, including shipping. Obviously, an import is more expensive than a domestic reissue. But the cost is still very reasonable.

[felser]

20 Euro is the total cost for a midpriced japanese import, including shipping. Obviously, an import is more expensive than a domestic reissue. But the cost is still very reasonable.

Well, the phrases floating around in the last few posts which I was/am refuting include "I think that it's a myth these days that Japanese CDs are expensive","they are not expensive at all", "There are many CD reissues priced at 1500 yen for example, and even if they have a higher price of say 2345 yen, that's fully comparable with many domestic CDs", and "final cost per disc including shipping is around 20 Euro, which is half the price many european stores are asking for the same discs". Well, that represents about a 100-150% cost increase over the domestic reissues we've been buying in the US for almost 20 years now, which doesn't synch up with the statements being made about buying them in Europe. If it's gonna cost me 2-2.5 times as much to buy the same number of discs, that's a drastic price increase, and why should I consider that "very reasonable" and "not expensive at all"? and it's sure not "fully comparable with many domestic CDs", yet those are the phrases being used here in these posts. And how do the statements "fully comparable with many domestic CDs" and "Obviously, an import is more expensive than a domestic reissue" fit together to describe the same Japanese CD's, and yet both those statements are being made here to me.

Edited January 28, 2007 by felser

[WD45]

When will ANYONE reissue Art Hodes' Blue Note sides?

[jazzbo]

Good question! I have them all. . . in the Mosaic, and again many of them on Japanese Blue Note cds. . . but I tell you, I think they would sound splendid in RVG editions!

[Harold_Z]

I would love to see a good reissue of the Art Hodes Blue Notes! Lon's got it. An RVG would probably be a real improvement, judging from the RVG Monk things.