When should phonographic copyright ARs be added at recording level vs. release level?

Ok—let me see if everyone agrees. I’ve never played the the poll tool before, so… an excuse to play with it :grin:

Obviously, some of these conflict (in particular, 3 vs. 4 and 5 vs. the rest). I’ve set the max to 3, as I think you can’t pick more than that without contradiction.

3 vs. 4 is intended to capture what the default should be—℗ defaults to recordings or to releases.

  • If a release says “compilation ℗year company”, that should be entered as a relationship on the release
  • If a release gives “℗year company” on a per-track (or per-track-group), that should be entered as a relationship on each recording it applies to, not on the release.
  • If a release gives “℗year company” for the whole release, not explicitly saying which tracks it applies to, it should generally go on the recordings, unless there is some reason to believe it doesn’t apply to all of them.
  • If a release gives “℗year company” for the whole release, not explicitly saying which tracks it applies to, try to determine if it likely applies to all tracks (for example, if it’s within a year of the performance dates listed for the tracks, it probably does). Only if you have reason to think it does, apply it to all recordings; otherwise, put it on the release.
  • ℗ relationships should only go on releases, not recordings (with the exception of standalone recordings.)

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