[mb-users] Re: Legal names and performance names

[Lauri Watts]

On 7/3/07, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
> Lauri Watts wrote:
> >
> > It matters to one person, apparently.  We got decided against legal
> > name already once, there's just no need to bring it back into play.
> >
>
> So is there any viable alternative to Legal Name out there?  I don't
> honestly care what it would actually be, as long as it allows releases
> by Walter/Wendy Carlos to be tagged under the name they were credited
> to; that's the extent of my interest in this topic.

Exactly.  All we need is to be able to add them both, and relate them
to each other.  Which we can already do with "X is a perfomance name
for Y" (or, if we reworded that to "X is also known as Y", it'd still
work just fine, both directions, and make sense for bands too.)

The particular case you raise isn't actually hampered by the AR's we
have, it's more that lots of people think all the Walter/Wendy credits
should be under one name, and others that it should be split, and
right now the 'one name' is winning (somewhat confused by the artists
desire to have all their work under their current name, to the point
of reissuing everything).

That's also solved with NGS, Lukz says aliases can be attached to
particular credits which will nicely wrap up the Carlos case.

-- 
Lauri Watts