maranatha! music is a us label https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maranatha!_Music
Ah, I see. This is licensed from Maranatha and released by KI Entertainment in Australia. I would list both those as release labels, since both logos appear on the cover.
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One thing to note is parallel imports are legal in Australia.
It is perfectly legal to as a company go to another country and buy stock there and import this for sale in Australia.
As long as the rights to press the cd was valid in the source country it is ok.
For the big music stores this does not cause a problem as they will buy from the manufacturers of the cd that have the australian rights and if they parallel import from another source they may cut them off.
But for smaller stores such as Koorong they may just go to another country instead of getting the australian rights to create the cd.
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@dns_server In MusicBrainz terms, for a release as you describe, would you set the country to USA?
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Personally I probably would set the release to the USA.
I do occasionally get some parallel imported cd’s (where it can be clearly marked as such).
I do buy the ministry of sound compilation from the uk in one of the big chain stores and it does have a label indicating it is a parallel import.
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