[mb-users] Bandname as composer?

[Jim DeLaHunt]

Fred Marchee wrote:
> 
> I want to add AR's to the composers of the songs but the CD (Vaudeville) 
> says: "All songs written by In Tua Nua". I can do the following edits:
> 
> - Add composed by "In Tua Nua" (and AR all the band members to the group 
> which I nevertheless will do in a minute)
> - Add composed by all the bandmembers (they have seven band members)
> - Search BMI and add the legal composers (they are the band members but 
> not all of them)
> 

Of these, it seems to me:

Having an AR say "In Tua Nua" composed the song is imprecise about which
human beings actually did the composition work, but that accurately reflects
the imprecise knowledge you have with just the record cover. Therefore it's
a good contribution to the database.

Adding ARs that say each individual band member composed the song is more
precise than your knowledge justifies. Therefore it's perhaps misleading.

Searching BMI gives you more precise knowledge, which justifies adding ARs
with just the legal composers.  It's great if you are willing to do this
research.

Also, bear in mind that the ReleaseAnnotation is a good place to put any
kind of unstructured information that doesn't fit into ARs. You could, for
example, put in a comment in the ReleaseAnnotation that the album cover
gives composer credit to the group without saying which people actually
composed which song. That is a factual statement, and it's worth recording
in MB.

I appreciate your diligence. And I appreciate your planting more composition
ARs out in the wasteland. Maybe a forest will grow from your efforts.

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