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THE "DYLAN: CONTRABAND" BOOTLEG FORUM

WANT TO TALK about Bob?s bootlegs? Wanna know which CD is the unmissable souvenir of your last gig? Got ANY boot question, and don?t know where to turn?

Then THE BOOTLEG FORUM is the place for you!

WITH MOST BD PERFORMANCES being mini-disc?d (some several times over!) and many superb sets coming out on CD and CD-R, how can you find out exactly what?s out there? Simple: you ask!

That's what THE BOOTLEG FORUM?s all about; world-wide information.

IF YOU'RE LOOKING for a particular recording, feel free to say so. However, THE BOOTLEG FORUM isn?t a sale page, so please don?t start offering your priceless collections to the highest bidder. We can?t and won?t knowingly facilitate the sale of any items that might infringe the artist?s copyright.

Oh, and one last thing; this is an open forum. We can?t be surprised if every now and then the forces of officialdom take a quick browse.

So do be careful naming names?

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To live outside the law you must be honest...

What's legal and what is not?




Ownership of boots is legal in the UK, importation of a single copy of a title for personal use is specifically authorised. Importation of more than a single copy,copying (other than the making of a single copy for personal use),sale, distribution and advertising are both a civil and criminal offence, usually pursued by a 'cease and desist' or 'Anton Pillar' order.Incidentally, always remember The BPI/MRCPS is a private corporation with no statutory or enforcement powers, though they like to pretend otherwise.Any disclosure of information by Customs to the BPI is almost invariably illegal and any seizure of goods based on improper disclosure of information by Customs to the BPI should be resisted, and retaliatory legal action for breach of confidence should be considered or threatened in any subsequent negotiation.




Europe by and large doesn't give a damn about copyright protection, likewise Japan, but for occasional cosmetic crackdowns when pressured by the record companies.




Us customs are more proactive, and less accommodating,even descending to elaborate 'sting' operations when they can't be bothered to pursue real criminals. My understanding is that while ownership of a single copy is not prohibited by Federal law, some of the more deranged individual States do have regulations


permitting confiscation and , in some caes, forcible entry to both commercial and domestic premises.I believe California, home of the free and the boot, has some of the most draconian local laws on boots, though recently they seem to have grown up and pretty well stopped enforcing them except against major suppliers and wholesalers.Any comments/corrections on the state of play in individual States/territories gratefully received.




Writng about boots for the historical record or for the purposes of literary/musicological criticism is legal everywhere (in Zoimbabwe, as long as you're not rude about President Mugabe) unless it crosses the line into specific advertising of the type thar used to grace Rolling Stone in more liberated times.