On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Lemire, Sebastien <[email protected]> wrote: > Another note, if you search for works on JASRAC or ISWC-NET, there is never > any mention of who is covering who. you just see a list of artists who > performed/recorded the work in question...
That's one of the reasons why I just can't see the point of the cover stuff. If you want to see who was the original artist, just look at the first performance or something. > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Lemire, Sebastien <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From Wikipedia: >>> >>> In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a >>> new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, >>> commercially released song or popular song. >> >> This clearly a Performance->Performance or Recording->Recording >> relationship. I think you guys are failing to understand what a Song or work >> is. There is no Artist associated to it, there is someone that performed or >> recorded it, there is someone that composed it and someone that wrote the >> lyrics, etc... The cover has to be based on someone's performance/recording, >> not on the composition itself! How can you cover words and musical notes on >> a piece of paper? >> Sebastien >> >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:10 PM, SwissChris <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:51 PM, lorenz pressler <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> -1 >>>> >>>> if the work was not written for a specific artist only performances >>>> should >>>> be linked. >>>> imho your proposed new relationship makes editing even more bothersome. >>>> Also i don't understand how your new rec-rec would solve the problem in >>>> unclear cases (i think of jazz)? you'd still have some attributed as >>>> covers while others not. but more work. >>>> >>>> if i see such works with inconsistent linking i usually just change to >>>> whatever i think is better after quick research. if i would have to >>>> create >>>> tons of interlinked recordings i won't spot such inconsistencies that >>>> easy >>>> and it would be a pain to fix them. also that would be a new candidate >>>> for >>>> relationship clusters ;P >>> >>> -1 as well. Why not leave this to the editors which IMHO know pretty well >>> whether clicking the "cover" box makes sense in a given context and when >>> simple "performance" should apply ;-) >>> Chris/chabreyflint >>>> >>>> -- >>>> lorenz pressler >>>> PGP 0x92E9551A >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MusicBrainz-style mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MusicBrainz-style mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style > -- Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
