There is a company that works as all of the above in the title of this post, all roles registered under the same company ID. What should be its Type when registering it? Holding? Label? Production?
Thank you, guys, in advance.
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Does it use the same name for all of those? E.g., if it uses Some Name as a label, Some Name Publishing as a publisher, Some Name Inc. as a copyright holder, etc., then those should probably all be separate labels in MB.
Edit to add: I usually just leave the type blank unless there’s a clear single type that applies. Dunno if that’s right though.
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Leave the type blank and add tags
More less. In Spotify, Deezer, etc. It uses “Company_name Music”, which is only registered on those kinds of services, but not legally.
I think I will leave it blank as you suggested. Thank you for replying!
Do you mean it’s not a registered company or something? Depending on the jurisdiction, I think it could still be a trade name for the company. Or just a brand/product/division/other name that isn’t meant to be the name of the company itself. More importantly, I don’t think MusicBrainz is usually all that interested in the corporate structure, just in what a label does with music and how it relates to other MB entities, like if the founder is an artist. Personally, I’d add Company_name Music as a separate label unless there were some reason to think it was meant to be the same as just plain Company_name.
Exactly. They have the legally-registered name “ALL-IN-ONE CORP.”, for example. However, in the streaming platforms and stuff, instead of using their legal name, they use at least 3 different “more appealing” names
To be direct, I am talking about GR6 Music and GR6 Explode labels, which are under the entry I have added, GR6 Eventos Produtora Gravadora e Editora. The main reason I have created that label is because, when involving “more official” business like ISWC registering and creators’ agencies, they use their legal name on it. So, by having this label, we can avoid inconsistencies when adding GR6 in publisher or distribution relationships.
So, should those three labels be connected by some kind of relationship? Should they be merged?
Sounds to me like GR6 Eventos Produtora Gravadora e Editora is a “holding” (type) label. If it is handling the legals like ISWC and copyright.
GR6 Music and GR6 Explode sound like two “distributor” (type) labels. As they are involved in getting the music to the masses. If they do a higher level job like the actual “production”, then I’d tend to use that instead.
I’d then use a label to label relationship to link GR6 Eventos Produtora Gravadora e Editora as “parent” label to GR6 Music and GR6 Explode.
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I thought that so, but it also works as a publisher, even according to BMI registries and stuff. So, I don’t know if it is fine to set a Holding label as publisher in a Label-Work relationship, according to the MB guidelines. If it is, your classification as a holding company makes total sense to me.
That’s a great suggestion. I believe that it’s way less “extreme” than the merge, since it could be a little counterintuitive for someone to select the Full Name GR6 as a label for a release entry.
Holding or Publisher… I often just leave it blank as I don’t know which is correct either. Generally look for the more “senior” role to put into place as it is expected that a company covers many of these roles.
Always remember you have the annotation that you can use to better explain what a company does and how it relates to the sub-companies. One of the uses of the relationships is so you can find the other connected parts of a company who runs different sections under various names.
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