Copyright relationship on Work vs Edition

[Deleted_Editor_2265540]

I noticed that someone had created a copyright relationship on a couple of Works for Stephen King novels.

My thinking is that the Work should be as generic as possible. Copyright entities can and do change over a period of time. I believe the correct place to record copyright is on the Edition.

There is no copyright relationship available in the Edition which I feel is a mistake.

Maybe the aim is to record the entire copyright history on the Work and that would invalidate my argument.

[indy133]

@Deleted_Editor_2265540

There is no copyright relationship available in the Edition which I feel is a mistake

was mentioned here —>

Copyrights holders are often persons

At the moment we only can add companies as copyrights holder for an edition. But very often it’s the author itself or in the case of Virginia Woolf, her nephew and her niece. Since I don’t like the idea of “fake companies” to add them, we need a new relation possibility for the copyrights.

[Deleted_Editor_2265540]

@indy133

was mentioned here —>

Gee, I even commented on that thread, but it was early days!

I agree with the last comment you made which didn’t get a response.

@indy133

I don’t think we need an author-work or publisher-work relation at all in this case. The copyright relations are only relevant for the edition they are printed into and the respective time period.
Do you have an example showing the necessity to relate a copyright to a work?

[mr_monkey]

It only took a year and a half to get a reply… (and a reminder from this post )