Just for the record, presuming that there's no objections, this RFC expires on the 3rd of October.
(+1 from me too) Nikki Jeroen Latour wrote: > Hi all, > > A while back, there was a RFC to add a Writer Relationship Type to credit > songwriters. That RFC was unfortunately abandoned, but I found it when I was > wondering about what to do with 'Written By' credits on Discogs. In many > cases, it's not clear whether that applies to music, or lyrics. Two people > might be credited as writers, with one writing the music and the other the > lyrics. The same problem occurs with interpreting 'Writer' credits on liner > notes. > > To solve this issue, I've taken the Writer Relationship Type, and made it to > be a generic relationship to be used when there is not enough information to > add either Composer or Lyricist credits. > I made the following changes from the original AR: > > 1. Instead of having attributes to indicate music and/or lyrics, I > propose to create Composer and Lyricist ARs instead when this information > is > available. This was proposed earlier in > > http://www.mail-archive.com/musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org/msg08551.html. > Personally, I don't like the distinction between songwriter and composing > that was part of the original AR. > 2. I dropped the 'guest' attribute, which was used when songwriters were > invited to write for another artist. I have not seen any examples where > this > would be useful, but if anyone can suggest some I'll be happy to add it > again. (In that case: should we do the same for composer/lyricist?) > > The RFC is at http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Writer_Relationship_Type. I > propose to add this Relationship Type as a supertype to Lyricist and > Composer, making Lyricist and Composer 'children' of this AR to express that > they are more specific forms. (is that possible?) > > Looking forward to your comments. > > Regards, > Jeroen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
