I don't see that happening. But, I think that the artist should be involved in that decision making. It shouldn't be up to someone else to repackage it and make money off of it, when the artist has stopped making money on it. The back off my records say that the material is controlled by the artist because I think it is theirs. If they are dissatisfied with the way I present their music then they have every right to take it away from me and put it somewhere else.
Recordings are a duplication of someone's art.
Ultimately, that sound on that tape belongs to the people who created that sound. BJ Almost all my agreements are oral. My intention is to keep the records in print as long as it's economically feasible. Obviously, I'm a small label, so the money is very tight. Some things slide out of print and it takes me a while to get them back out.