Yep, I considered original and I'm not sure. It needs thinking about because we should only be saying what is important. Does it matter if a recording has been altered already? Anyway, something to ponder. I don't have an answer yet.
On 15 April 2013 09:33, Frederic Da Vitoria <davito...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/4/15 Tom Crocker <tomcrockerm...@gmail.com> > >> Just wanted to say that I came across this >> http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ56.pdf US Government circular about >> copyright for sound recordings. Obviously, there is stuff in here that is >> different from how we want to define things in MB, but it does have some >> very precise definitions. What's interesting is we've managed to wander >> quite close to some of them. However, mainly where they talk about >> 'derivative recordings': "The preexisting recorded sounds must have been >> rearranged, remixed, or otherwise altered in sequence or character, or >> there must be some additional new sounds." Now this is for copyright, so >> slightly different rules but if you take out the 'or character or >> additional new sounds', it's essentially what we've got. But that's only >> for derivative recordings. This comes back the unmixed unedited question. >> They define a recording as the product of the “fixation of a series of >> musical, spoken, or other sounds” (similar to our audio track definition). >> So I think there might be an answer somewhere in here. I think the mixing >> and editing is it's what defines unique derivative recordings perhaps >> versus 'source recordings' (just made that up, don't know what anyone >> thinks but to me it's better than raw). >> > > Yes, "source recording", maybe "original recording" would be even better, > because "source" could be relative (it could itself be already altered) > while "original" seems to be less ambiguous. > > -- > Frederic Da Vitoria > (davitof) > > Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - > http://www.april.org > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style >
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