Doing some gap filling on a few things, looking at adding IPI’s to publisher entities and added an IPI to this entity:
Which ModBot then advised was already on this similarly named entity:
Am I right in thinking that all the Publisher relationships under the first need to be moved to the second?
I have encountered the ModBot IPI checker spanking several times and each takes investigation. Once the IPI was on the wrong entity and I had to put in a edit change, once the publisher name had slightly changed (I think “inc.” was added) I added an alias, and a while back I ran into something like you have. There are a number of publishing entities with the same name between BMI and ASCAP.
In this case the BMI shown publisher is with PRS
ASCAP show both publishers
From BMI
MPL COMMUNICATIONS INC IPI 740807645 PRS
No other information
From ASCAP
MPL COMMUNICATIONS INC IPI 740807645 PRO PRS
No other information
MPL COMMUNICATIONS INC IPI 88721248 PRO ASCAP
MPL COMMUNICATIONS INC
(212)246-5881
inquiry@mplcommunications.com
41 W 54TH ST
NEW YORK, NY 10019
ASCAP 88721248
ok but considering that in MusicBrainz-land we split have split the company (which may actually just be the one real-world entity) into a Holdings company and a Publisher, is it worth moving all publishing relationships to the Publisher entity?
I do not know. It appears ASCAP is mapping the “MPL Communications Inc.” PRS and SOCAN works under this publishing IPI, if that makes since. Maybe ASCAP originally had to do this where BMI did not.