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How can limited editions show up on iTunes at all? Do iTunes have to take them down when the CD and download sales reach 3000?
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Many times a licensor holds onto electronic download rights. With LOCK UP, we didn't have them. The licensor is, of course, free to do what they want with them. So they may have put it up themselves like Disney has been doing.
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I noticed that the Varese-edition of BASIC INSTINCT was on the Canadian iTunes store, a surprise because there isn't a single Varese album on the Canadian store. Ryan
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I noticed that the Varese-edition of BASIC INSTINCT was on the Canadian iTunes store, a surprise because there isn't a single Varese album on the Canadian store. Ryan FYI, BASIC INSTINCT is no longer licensed to VARESE and if it's up on ITUNES, I'd like to know who put it there myself since I made the deal for PROMETHEUS RECORDS that granted them SOLE RIGHTS to this title for the term of their agreement. Ford A. Thaxton
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Aug 15, 2007 - 9:46 PM
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SchiffyM
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How can limited releases be available on iTunes??? Unfair for the people who purchase the actual sold out limited cd's for a substantial amount. Let's be clear on what a limited edition means: it means that that particular CD from that particular label will not be released again. It does not mean that that music will be forever unavailable. (And really, is that what we would want?) Thus, Varese's limited "Cherry 2000" showed up years later on Prometheus. Every contract is different (well, actually, a lot are full of boilerplate sameness, but you get my point). It seems that, once FSM sold out their run of 3,000 "Patton" CDs, 20th Century Fox (which continues to own the music itself) put it up on iTunes. "Lock Up" seems to be in a similar situation. If Intrada had purchased all media rights in perpetuity, that would not have been possible. But they apparently did not. (And why would they have?)
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I missed out on the Intrada release - so I was very happy to come across it on iTunes. Very enjoyable score.
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