[mb-style] Lyrics (WAS: Re: Cover style)

[Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen]

2006/9/6, Stefan Kestenholz <keschte at gmail.com>:
>On 9/6/06, Sami Sundell <sami.sundell at kotikone.fi> wrote:
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>>By the way, I took a look at the ObjectModel/NGS/whatever pages. Is it
>>just me, or are those pages missing lyrics? No, not part of this mailing
>>list, just came to my mind when I tried to look for the proper object in
>>here 8)
>
>Lyrics=not possible due to copyright issues. (see all those lyrics sites
>which are taken down by the industry as we speak)

Some lyrics *are* possible to store (traditional/public domain,
Creative Commons/open license, permission from artists, etc.) - but
perhaps it would make sense not to allow anyone to enter lyrics and
only allow certain people who know about copyright issues and stuff.
However, I'm not sure it is (well, it isn't currently :)), nor should
be, MusicBrainz' job to store lyrics. There are other sites dealing
with that (legal and illegal song collections, artists own websites,
etc.), but it might be nice to have an AR for releases and/or tracks,
perhaps something like "[url] has lyrics for [release|track]".

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Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen <http://freso.dk/>