Record Label
**Please note, many Regal issues also carry an EMI logo. This is not a label and EMI should not be added as a label, it instead indicates that Regal was part of the EMI Group.** Record label established by [[label:97841]] in 1914, (Trademark first registered 18th June 1910) initially as a budget UK label and an outlet for re-issues. In 1931 [[label:293204]] **(EMI)** is formed through the merger of Columbia Graphophone Company Ltd. & [[label:253617]] In 1932 the Regal and the [[label:35129]] imprint owned by The Gramophone Co. Ltd. are brought together to create a new label [[label:39354]] (subsequently "Regal Zonophone" was never registered as an independent trademark) Following the merger the Regal label was predominantly used by [[label:71314]] from the 1940s , as the Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd. did not hold the rights to use its [[label:1866]] imprint in Spain, which was subsequently owned by an unrelated company [[label:36905]]. In 1965 Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd. is merged into The Gramophone Co. Ltd., who becomes the registered owner of the Regal label (trademark.) and CGCL back catalogues, subsequently bringing the Regal & Zonophone (Regal Zonophone) labels (trademarks) under one common ownership. Post 1965 The Gramophone Co. Ltd. introduces the ["Regal crown" imprint](https://www.discogs.com/label/4920-Regal#images/5299938) (separately registered trademark), used mostly as an outlet in the UK for reissues, compilations, including some new material. The rights and ownership to the Regal imprints were subsequently reassigned to [[label:63404]] in 1973, with the label being revived several times over the years. On the 27th April 2004 ownership of the imprint passes to [[label:1032063]] subsidiary EMI (IP) Ltd. (intellectual property holding company) with EMI Records Ltd. subsequently becoming a licensee, this licence was cancelled on the 5th June 2013, however ownership and rights to the label were acquired by Warner Music Group, Inc. subsidiary [[label:563997]] on the 27th march 2013 following the formation of the [[label:806790]] (PLG Holdco Ltd) which was created through the divestment of the EMI Group Plc. An affiliated company dealing with copyrights etc, is [[label:2653]].