For example, Warp (Records) - its current state on MB → label (type) relationships:
Warp (Original Production) ← should rather be “imprint” than “original production”?
subsidiary Warp Records (Original Production) ← a subsidiary?
subsidiaries Arcola, Gift Records, Lex Records (all Original Production) and Ndeya (-) ←subsidiaries of the label/imprint? more likely of the company…
imprint of Warp Records Limited (Holding)
→→→ Warp Records Limited (Holding) has also a subsidiary Warp Films (-) ←Warp launched a film company, Warp Films (Wikipedia), but it seems to be a different company
Warp acts also as a publisher, that’s probably a different company:
Warp Publishing (Publisher) - with entries credited as “Warp Publishing Ltd”, “Warp Music Publishing U.S”, …
currently unrelated to
Warp Music Ltd. (Publisher) - disambiguation “Warp Publishing”, alias “Warp Music Publishing”
has subsidiary Warp Songs US (Publisher)
This is a bit chaotic
Although Warp has a Wikipedia article and 2 active domains (record company/label warp.net, publisher warppublishing.net), there is little information “about” - no company names, not even an address (contact via mail or social media), though their address can be found elsewhere: Spectrum House, 32-34 Gordon House Road, London. A search using the company names returns quite old company registration entries, but they moved only once.
My main problem: I don’t know how to use label types and label-label relationships.
The record company is probably Warp Records Limited (including company type) ← is this a Holding or Original production?
What’s with Warp Records? It is mostly used synonymously with the record company, for copyrights, etc., but also for the label (on Discogs) - on MB Warp should be used instead (as on the logo - an “imprint”?). Where should Warp Records be placed between the record company and the imprint? Which label type is it? Should it be merged? Merged into what?
For the publisher, I would suggest merging them all and all names as aliases - unless I find out in which order they were renamed into each other (I’m not sure if that’s possible).
Both, record company/label and publisher have a US branch, but this most likely belongs to the same company.
There’s no urgency to fix this (it’s just a relatively simple example), but I generally have a problem with it:
I still do not know how to use label types and parent-subsidiary relationships correctly, especially where to put company brand names between company and release label. And in particular, I can’t distinguish when a label is imprint or subsidiary.