On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Johannes Weißl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I propose to add a new artist-artist relationship "Voice Actor".
> Currently the "Performance Name" relationship is used to capture this
> information. Adding a new relationship has many advantages:
>
> 1. Fix incorrect text for fictitious artists, e.g.:
>   "legal name: Trey Parker" for Eric Cartman
> 2. Disambiguate real performance names from voice-acted characters, e.g.
>   "Juan Schwartz" from "Eric Cartman"
>   
> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/b8e4771f-6156-48cd-ab77-d10bc3fd50d9/relationships
> 3. The current rule is that artist information (gender, birth date, ...)
>   should be copied from the artist to all performance names. The
>   "performs-as" for voice-acted characters violates this rule.

Under this proposal, would it be possible to use this also with live
action characters? "voice actor" as a term seems to exclude those
(say, for soundtracks which credit tracks to characters) unless you're
calling those "voice and body actors" or something.
>
> Initial discussion: 
> http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz/2011/2011-08/2011-08-08.html
> Wiki page: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Proposal:Voice_Actor_Relationship_Type
> Expiration date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:18:55 UTC
>
>
> Johannes
>
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