# Listing a company as an artist/technician **URL:** \ **Category:** Classical\ **Tags:** style\ **Created:** [May 14, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/listing-a-company-as-an-artist-technician/380256 "2018-05-14T19:05:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eusebius](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/aeb1de/32.png) [@Eusebius](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Eusebius)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/listing-a-company-as-an-artist-technician/380256/1 "2018-05-14T19:05:24Z")
Hi all. I made [this edit](https://musicbrainz.org/edit/52874882), which got challenged with reason, and I’m not sure how I should resolve the issue. The problem is that the album credits a company (a studio), not an individual technician, for the recording (I’ve had a similar issue with a piano technician). MB expects a physical person in those instances, but I cannot provide one. It has been suggested to me to enter the company as the recording place, but a recording place already exists and it is very different (live event, not in the studio’s city). Label-release and label-recording relationships have already been pointed to me, but (apart from the fact that the studio is probably not a label), none seems to correspond. What would be the right thing to do? - Enter the studio as an artist and credit them as the recording engineer (current state of affairs); - Use another, (ill-suited?) relationship/status for the company; - Enter the credit as an annotation of the release and leave it at that; - Something else? Thanks for your insight. ---
**Author:** ![mmirG](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/mmirg/32/1327_2.png) [@mmirG](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mmirG)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 8:52am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/listing-a-company-as-an-artist-technician/380256/2 "2018-05-15T08:52:23Z")
I have a parallel case where the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is credited in the CD booklet as doing the recording for [Live: Winners from the 3rd Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition July 1999](https://musicbrainz.org/release/9d9dd9f4-70ca-4ad8-8d73-ac6db9600855) The CA design for this Release is also credited to a company. My thinking is that a company in the non-legal sense is similar to a duo, group, band or orchestra and that extending the ability to be a creative entity out to a legal company may be the best way forward. The obvious (to me) alternative is to use **[unknown]** credited as **Australian Broadcasting Corporation** The possible downside of this MAY be that “credited as” doesn’t get much weight in a future wonderful search function and so ends up being pretty much redundant and largely un-related data. ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Yank](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/billy_yank/32/1585_2.png) [@Billy\_Yank](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Billy_Yank)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/listing-a-company-as-an-artist-technician/380256/3 "2018-05-15T13:33:01Z")
I really don’t see any problem with a company as artist. I’ve added Hypgnosis as a graphic designer on a number of releases because that’s the way it’s credited. I’ve also added a few photography studios and photographic archives for photography credits. ---
**Author:** ![ClÃ\_psHydra](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ClÃ\_psHydra](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Cl%C3%83_psHydra)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/listing-a-company-as-an-artist-technician/380256/4 "2018-05-16T11:58:22Z")
> [@Billy\_Yank](#): > > I’ve also added a few photography studios and photographic archives for photography credits. @Billy_Yank: So did I. Some nice examples: [https://musicbrainz.org/artist/373e4bc6-9eb5-46c0-adba-6c5b458a5532](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/373e4bc6-9eb5-46c0-adba-6c5b458a5532) [https://musicbrainz.org/artist/db2cb969-fbdd-4f72-a4ff-15b64184343a](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/db2cb969-fbdd-4f72-a4ff-15b64184343a) [https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f67efa34-0421-4390-8222-96f5038aa74f](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f67efa34-0421-4390-8222-96f5038aa74f) [https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f90a8cd2-9226-415a-9863-8990be33757d](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f90a8cd2-9226-415a-9863-8990be33757d) [https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8b37b89c-42a8-4150-ae75-8293faf2669f](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8b37b89c-42a8-4150-ae75-8293faf2669f) [https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ef0bdb67-3dfc-4764-b355-7577fed9be69](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ef0bdb67-3dfc-4764-b355-7577fed9be69) [https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e2fef61a-9568-4f15-a0ba-3ec5e30b2832](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e2fef61a-9568-4f15-a0ba-3ec5e30b2832) [https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eea60f7b-8ee7-48db-8b7f-4a7608f1c917](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eea60f7b-8ee7-48db-8b7f-4a7608f1c917) [https://musicbrainz.org/artist/dc96f91e-abf4-4e38-9db4-33688b47eab5](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/dc96f91e-abf4-4e38-9db4-33688b47eab5) ---
**Author:** ![Eusebius](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/aeb1de/32.png) [@Eusebius](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Eusebius)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/listing-a-company-as-an-artist-technician/380256/5 "2018-05-19T16:20:22Z")
OK, so to summarize, this is not a completely absurd workaround. Thanks.