Copyrights

[chaban]

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STYLE-607: Copyright / Phonographic copyright dates

Right now, there seems to be no definition at all of what the dates mean on copyright / phonographic copyright rels, or at least it’s not in the relationship guidelines. In a lot of cases I’ve seen, they seem to be used with the start date of whatever is printed and an open end date, I assume to represent that it’s not just they had the copyright for that one year. That kinda breaks for cases like “(P) 2000 - 2001” though, unless we should be doing "2000 - ". We should probably decide how this …

When should phonographic copyright ARs be added at recording level vs. release level?

I get stumped on this issue: when should phonographic copyright ARs be added at recording level and when should they be added at release level? I find no explanation in documentation. Here’s 2 distinct release examples: ★ by David Bowie at recording level vs. Out for Blood by Lita Ford at release level Would appreciate elucidation

Copyright and publishing dates revisited

Back in 2016, we had this discussion about copyright and phonographic copyright relationships. It was decided then that the dates should be static (i.e. the same year as the begin and end date) but beyond that, there is still some ambiguity (namely, what to do about relationships that change hands over time). Here are a few proposed solutions: Leave publishing relationships open-ended, so the date fields can be used to track when a company changed its name, got bought out, etc. (or as in the …

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Personally I’m wary of adding copyright related relationships in the first place as they can change:

• iTunes - Music - Darksiders II Original Soundtrack by Jesper Kyd
  ℗ 2012 Sumthing Else Music Works
• ‎Darksiders II (Original Soundtrack) by Jesper Kyd on Apple Music
  ℗ 2012 THQ Nordic