[mb-users] Group had to change there name - two artist entries?

[Alexander Kiel]

Lauri Watts wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>  >
>>  >  Lauri, am I wrong or the case mentioned here concern *groups* and not
>>  >  Perf Names?
>>  >
>>
>>  You're not wrong.  Sort of.
>>
>>  We discussed it briefly at some point here, or in edit notes, I don't
>>  remember, and
>>  can't find right now, but to summarise:
>>     
>
> Sorry for the mail flood. I'm going back to work in a sec for at least
> another 6 hours,
> it'll quiet down, I promise:
>
> http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6058878
> http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6514232
> http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6120417
>
> (and to show it's not just me that this makes sense to, none of these
> edits are mine :)
>
> Nabble is offline for maintenance,but I'm pretty sure this crossed
> over to mailing
> list around the same time (hence my 'another vote' phrasing in one of
> those edit notes)
>
>   
So that Teddybears thing is wired. If you read 
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SameArtistWithDifferentNames groups 
shouldn't have Performance Names:

    "Groups don't have neither LegalName 
<http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/LegalName>s nor PerformanceName 
<http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/PerformanceName>s."

I'm searching right now for other examples of legal constraint changes 
of band names. I found a very funny example Karat [1] had to call itself 
for one year K...! until the legal issue was solved. I added K...! as 
alias [2]. They released one album under K...! in 2006 [3] where the 
name is very prominent on the disc. However on the 2007 compilation 
Karat is back on the covers. So I think the Alias thing is the best 
here. Maybe I get my hands on the "Der letzte Countdown" single and add 
it under Karat (K...!).

[1] http://musicbrainz.org/artist/4cf53152-5ab5-42ca-ac0d-dfcf8bc48f46.html
[2] http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8407114
[3] http://www.karat-band.de/karat-neu/disc/titel.htm

Ok I'm hunting for other examples. Perhaps we should document the 
Alias/two artist issue better and with help of consistent examples.

Regards
Alex