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I'm looking for information on who presently-
2004- controls the rights to recordings on various record labels.
The RIAA web page lists a few by each of the big
5. Otherwise, I've been able to hunt down a batch
one-at-a-time.
At the moment, I'm trying to find out who owns
Liberty Music Shop, Remington, Diplomat (which, if memory serves, was a label of
Synthetic Plastics), Prominade, Allegro-Royale, Ballen Record Co; Gold Star
(Hollywood); Gold Star (Houston), among others. Please supply a citation
for data when possible.
I've been unable to hunt down a web page that gives
this info. One would think it would be on the Billboard and/or Variety,
RIAA and other industry-related web sites, but publically available data
seems minimal.
There are numerous sites with record company
histories but which are often somewhat muzzy about the eventual fate of
each label.
These include Both Sides Now, the Red Saunders
Research Foundation, one by J.C. Marion and Wikipedia. The last is one
where anyone can post and seems otherwise unsupervised which makes its
reliability questionable.
Steve Smolian
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