Should be patrons are credited in any way?

[Libra]

Again me, again with my YT releases. As far as I know, on other streaming platforms it is not something usual to include names of artist’s patrons in recording description, but on YT it is a common practice. Examples will be below, because they are too long.

Can/Should patrons if they are credited in release be added to MB DB or it is undesirable? Of course with properly and clear disambiguation (as ‘patron of “x” artist’). On one hand, they are not really authors of music. But on other hand, there are artists that can publish their releases only because of this support by patrons (or at least, their support make releasing of their music much easier and artists can work more on music thanks to it). Especially, it is fair for artists, who don’t work with labels. So it is impossible to say, that their role is insignificant. In addition, they are credited in release descriptions.

I don’t see any defined relationship for that and I’m not sure if this theme was mentioned before. Theoretically, I can do it already with role:patron tag as I do for all other nonstandard relationships (as “subtitles” for example)

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[aerozol]

Personally, I would only include this kind of information in release annotations, if wanted.

[IvanDobsky]

I agree with @aerozol . Creating these people as “artists” in the database would be incorrect. They are sponsors\donators. Annotation is best place for them.

Most artists have someone behind them who puts in the finances to help them. These people are rarely credited.

[dseomn]

I’m not that familiar with music patrons, but with video patrons there’s at least some overlap between patron and producer. Relationship type / Producer - MusicBrainz mentions “practical day-to-day aspects involved with making a musical recording” and funding could be included in that if the artist wants to hand out producer credits to patrons. I wouldn’t add a producer credit for patrons in MBz unless the artist included that credit in the release info though.

[IvanDobsky]

I don’t think “give the artist some cash” can be put on the same level as the work a “producer” does.

[UltimateRiff]

I’ve added music commissioners before, but yeah, I don’t think I’d add patrons (or other general supporters) as artists. I might add them to the release annotation tho

[reosarevok]

Annotation does seem fine to me as well.