[mb-users] Bandname as composer?

[Fred Marchee]

Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
> 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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>
>   
I was planning to go for the hard way (=BMI), thanks for pushing me this 
way ;-)

Fred