Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Kuno Woudt
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:04:37PM -0400, Brian Schweitzer wrote: Sami, problem is, it's not always illegal. It's *always* illegal to sell bootlegs. It is illegal to make (in some countries, at least) and/or sell copies of official/promo releases. But many bands allow taping and trading.

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
While the record labels are truly evil, I don't think they have the copyrights on the songs themselves, only on the recordings they distribute. This means that the labels probably have most of the rights on the albums, and probably very few on the concerts themselves. On 5/9/07, Kuno Woudt

Re: [mb-style] re: bootlegs.

2007-05-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2007/5/9, Rob Keeney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sure, this one: http://musicbrainz.org/release/e991d3e4-4316-4445-a330-94bdc4d4845a.html and http://musicbrainz.org/release/d766bdf7-8de8-40d3-88ca-12f83ce192d8.html These are not bootlegs in the normally understood sense of illegal or illicit, but they

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Kuno Woudt
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:14:35AM +0200, Bogdan Butnaru wrote: While the record labels are truly evil, I don't think they have the copyrights on the songs themselves, only on the recordings they distribute. This means that the labels probably have most of the rights on the albums, and

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2007/5/9, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sami, problem is, it's not always illegal. It's *always* illegal to sell bootlegs. I don't understand. You seem to be saying something and it's own opposite. -- Frederic Da Vitoria ___

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
On 5/9/07, Frederic Da Vitoria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/5/9, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sami, problem is, it's not always illegal. It's *always* illegal to sell bootlegs. I don't understand. You seem to be saying something and it's own opposite. What he's saying is that it may

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2007/5/9, Bogdan Butnaru [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 5/9/07, Frederic Da Vitoria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/5/9, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sami, problem is, it's not always illegal. It's *always* illegal to sell bootlegs. I don't understand. You seem to be saying something and

Re: [mb-style] re: bootlegs.

2007-05-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2007/5/9, Chris B [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 09/05/07, Rob Keeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, this one: http://musicbrainz.org/release/e991d3e4-4316-4445-a330-94bdc4d4845a.html and http://musicbrainz.org/release/d766bdf7-8de8-40d3-88ca-12f83ce192d8.html These are not bootlegs in the

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Chris B
On 09/05/07, mud crow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the publisher who owns the rights to the songs, the publisher may be the record label, or the artist or a totally separate company. Northern Songs is the publishing company that owns the rights to most Beatles songs, ATV music then bought

Re: [mb-style] re: bootlegs.

2007-05-09 Thread Rob Keeney
On 5/9/07, Chris B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/05/07, Rob Keeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, this one: http://musicbrainz.org/release/e991d3e4-4316-4445-a330-94bdc4d4845a.html and http://musicbrainz.org/release/d766bdf7-8de8-40d3-88ca-12f83ce192d8.html These are not bootlegs in the

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Olivier
2007/5/9, mud crow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's the publisher who owns the rights to the songs, the publisher may be the record label, or the artist or a totally separate company. [...] they have total control over releases and licensing. [...] A bootleg is an unlicensed release. I like that, and

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2007/5/9, Olivier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2007/5/9, mud crow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's the publisher who owns the rights to the songs, the publisher may be the record label, or the artist or a totally separate company. [...] they have total control over releases and licensing. [...] A bootleg is

RE: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread P. HarryE. Coenen
What does it mean in practice: a. using the dfinition as proposed below: MB users cannot know if the label has all the right licences for the release (we don't even know that for releases from majors). As such it doesn't solve anything b. in use of the system for tagging You need to label all

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Olivier
2007/5/9, P. HarryE. Coenen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What does it mean in practice: a. using the dfinition as proposed below: MB users cannot know if the label has all the right licences for the release (we don't even know that for releases from majors). As such it doesn't solve anything Wrong.

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Olivier
Btw, WE DO HAVE right now a ROIO status. It's called I Don't Know in the release status drop down list. Each release entering the system is a ROIO, unless set to something more specific, and such a specific setting *should* be reviewed by voters as well. 2007/5/9, P. HarryE. Coenen [EMAIL

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Brian Schweitzer
Sami, problem is, it's not always illegal. It's *always* illegal to sell bootlegs. I don't understand. You seem to be saying something and it's own opposite. Frederic, You're confusion may be because you cut out the rest of my statement. It IS illegal to sell them, and it's illegal to

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Brian Schweitzer
What are these releases, though? Since debussy et al, don't have a 'record label' (their copyright has expired, i guess!), i assume permissions/rights are sought from the orchestras performing. if they have these rights, then it's official, if not then it's a bootleg. Well, the symphonies I

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Olivier
2007/5/9, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] A bootleg is an unlicensed release. I'm all for a simple definition, but I think this definition leaves too much still unclear. You stripped the important part out of it. For example, the way the pre-EU Italian bootleg CD companies in

Re: [mb-style] RFC: New Release Status: Upcoming

2007-05-09 Thread Olivier
ReleaseStatus page has been transcluded. We can now edit the wiki page at will. I'm working on the revised bootleg definition. Feel free to go ahead with updating ReleaseStatus for your own upcoming status. If you need help with setting up sthing on the wiki / page whatever, do ping me (or

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

2007-05-09 Thread Olivier
The WikiPage ReleaseStatus is now transcluded (also needed for the work on the upcoming release status). I'll update the wiki page with what came out of this discussion, and summarize things back here when I'll be done with that so we can move forward to the next part of the question: what is

Re: [mb-style] Japanese capitalisation fun

2007-05-09 Thread Kerensky97
Jason Salaz wrote: On 5/4/07, Chidade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... All latin (on the back of the CD) All kanji and kana (on the CD's obi and inside the CD booklet) A mix of kanji/kana and latin in other officially recognised places, like the website Which one of these should get