In a message dated 1/25/99 11:22:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<<
This is a bit off the point, I guess, of this particular debate...but I often
wondered about this as a DJ, when frustrated by the lack of songwriting
credits, and so I'll ask now: Why isn't this required? You pick up any book,
and if a song, even a line or two, is quoted within, there is a songwriting
(or
copyright, anyway...we know how that works) credit in the front matter of the
book. How's come you can put out a CD, with productions of the complete
songs,
and not give credit?>>
Writers, editors, and librarians -- we're picky sorts. I guess because there
are standard and accepted style manuals that are followed in writing when a
song or any copyrighted work is mentioned. I think you find the lack of
information on CD liner notes varies due to a lack of an accepted standard.
I don't know if anyone in the music industry has ever even thought about it.
I know the information in liner notes varies and even more so when it's an
indie or DIY release. On another list we got into a long discussion about the
correct title of an album and someone posted the cataloging record from the
Library of Congress. This muddied things even more. Because in this
particular case (it was an R.E.M. album - vinyl "Fables of the Reconstruction"
vs "Reconstruction of the Fables") and side 1 had a different title than side
2. I didn't pursue it further to see if the CD had been cataloged
differently. (One of you fluff guys can search that one out while you're
pretending to work tomorrow <g>)
O.K. I'll shut up -- I'm cramming on all sorts of cataloging, metadata, and
standards information for my job interview Thursday.
Deb
