[mb-style] ARs for labels

[Lauri Watts]

On 11/3/06, Olivier <viapanda at gmail.com> wrote:
> First attempt at it:
> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Label
>
> I - If this not the url to use, can Shepard (or other
> wiki-editor-with-remove-rights) move it somewhere else?
>
> II - this only reflects my ideas + what have been said in this thread,
> so let just use it as a start as it's more convenient than the list.

My comments:

Some record labels have more than one parent at a time, this needs to
be a many to one.

There are several record labels that are actually joint ventures
(compilation houses in particular).  As an example, and the one I know
best, EVA has independent companies in a dozen countries, but they are
all combinations of EMI/Virgin/Ariola/Sony/Warner.  Which, precisely,
in each country, varies, and they have varied over time (I have
somewhere a family tree of this stuff bookmarked, it's
fascinating,can't find it right this second).  I do know however it's
fairly common that the small companies that produce these compilation
series are actually joint owned by several of the bigger ones.

Secondly,  I would like to suggest the term catalog instead of
discography, when referring to labels.

It's a much more common term in the industry, and to the public, and
on the rare occasion you can get hold of one from the company (some
small ones still print 'em on paper, I recently found in my cellar a
printed HMV CD catalog from about 1983, when it still fit on about 20
pages :) or find it on their website, that's nearly always the term
used.  Discography to me is strongly associated with a particular
artist, or perhaps genre, across labels, while Catalog is strongliy
associated with a particular label.

Regards,
-- 
Lauri Watts