Do versions of songs in another language count as another work or just as a edit recording of the original song?
Translations are new works. This allows you to credit the translator.
The translation and the original should be linked with the {translated} version of relationship.
An example would be 99 Red Balloons.
For those of you keeping track, this might seem out of line with the FRBR model, because an mb-work entity can represent a version of a work.
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When either music or lyrics change, it’s a new work.
… at least if that new version was written down somewhere so it could be performed again. I’m not sure what our stance is on improvisations; there was another thread about that.