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Australian label founded by the INXS manager Chris Murphy ([a1694342] on Discogs) . While 'rooArt' is a record label, it's also simply credited as 'rooArt' for ℗ / ©. Alternatively the parent company '[l318460]' is also credited for its role as a Copyright holder. **Note that there are a number of Discogs entries which incorrectly credit 'rooArt' as the label, because the [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/33716-Ra-Records#images/2820252]logo[/url] for it's subsidiary '[l33716]' is often overlooked.** It's possible to discern the period in which a rooArt release was issued/reissued by confirming the 'Distributed By' entity: - when rooArt began in 1988 their releases were marketed by [l8742]. - from 1992 to April 1996 rooArt were distributed by [l66837] / [l145533] (cat# starting with 450, sometimes 903, 206 or 063). - from June 1996 to September 1996 rooArt were distributed by [l278585] (cat# starting with 206). - from November 1996 to 2004 rooArt were distributed by [l126069] / [l33595] (cat# starting with 7432). On September 29th 1996 rooArt / [l33716] was acquired by [l33595] for AU$5 million. - from late-2004 BMG Australia/Limited became [l216731]. (*Note that this distributor distinction only applies to local Australian bands/artists/releases, because for international releases the credits usually show that the release was licensed to rooArt — not who distributed it within Australia.) Distributor: [l6687] (Germany) (1993-).