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If you write about music, activlely promote music, or just know the right people, chanses are you get promo CDs. I’ve got stacks of them. I give ‘em a listen, but then what? Should I catalog and store these promo CDs forever, just because the record label that sent it marked it as “Licensed for promotional use only. Sale is prohibited.” or “Item is to be returned to the distributor upon demand.”? I think not. Half of them are either utter crap, or just not my thing- file in the circular file. Well, Universal Music now says that throwing away these promo CDs is “an unauthorized distribution” that violates copyright law.
