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Clearly there needs to be a single legal, authoritative, and publicly accessible source for any music product's (public) metadata. Before it gets aired by anyon

Clearly there needs to be a single legal, authoritative, and publicly accessible source for any music product's (public) metadata. Before it gets aired by anyone. A good model for this might be DOI ('Digital object identifier'). Anyone- music companies, artists, stores and streamers - would get a number for each published title where they could then find all the related metadata. Including reliable sources that can be queried for (private) legal details. It would seem like the rights orgs like ASCAP, BMI, Harry Fox, etc etc should have been all over this long ago. But maybe it'd mean their extinction. Or it would would complicate the back-room deals.

d883kd8 4y ago
Now this is a vision
saaaaaam 4y ago
There sort of is. But at the same time there absolutely is not. There have been various attempts to do this and they’ve all fallen flat because of vested interests and because the music industry is pretty bad at technology. There’s also a school of thought that says that the reason it’s never worked is because it would shine an uncomfortable light on some things - for example publishers (accidentally or knowingly) collecting revenues on song copyrights they no longer represent, or CMOs distributing money badly.
- jka 4y ago
  > There sort of is. Are you referring to MusicBrainz[1]? [1] - https://musicbrainz.org/ https://musicbrainz.org/
  - saaaaaam 4y ago
    I’m not, no. Musicbrainz is amazing and I’ve known them for a long time but it doesn’t address this problem - which is to do with authoritative first party metadata that define rights ownership. What I’m referring to is the structural identifiers like ISRC and ISWC.
    - jka 4y ago
      Those are new to me; thank you.
      - saaaaaam 4y ago
        You're welcome. You can query the ISWC database maintained by CISAC (the issuing authority) here: https://iswcnet.cisac.org/ https://iswcnet.cisac.org/ The IFPI has the equivalent database for ISRC: https://isrcsearch.ifpi.org/#!/search https://isrcsearch.ifpi.org/#!/search

d883kd8 4y ago

Now this is a vision

saaaaaam 4y ago

There sort of is. But at the same time there absolutely is not. There have been various attempts to do this and they’ve all fallen flat because of vested interests and because the music industry is pretty bad at technology. There’s also a school of thought that says that the reason it’s never worked is because it would shine an uncomfortable light on some things - for example publishers (accidentally or knowingly) collecting revenues on song copyrights they no longer represent, or CMOs distributing money badly.

jka 4y ago
> There sort of is. Are you referring to MusicBrainz[1]? [1] - https://musicbrainz.org/ https://musicbrainz.org/
- saaaaaam 4y ago
  I’m not, no. Musicbrainz is amazing and I’ve known them for a long time but it doesn’t address this problem - which is to do with authoritative first party metadata that define rights ownership. What I’m referring to is the structural identifiers like ISRC and ISWC.
  - jka 4y ago
    Those are new to me; thank you.
    - saaaaaam 4y ago
      You're welcome. You can query the ISWC database maintained by CISAC (the issuing authority) here: https://iswcnet.cisac.org/ https://iswcnet.cisac.org/ The IFPI has the equivalent database for ISRC: https://isrcsearch.ifpi.org/#!/search https://isrcsearch.ifpi.org/#!/search