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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 inter
by 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light on some things - for example publishers (accidentally or knowingly) collecting revenues on song copyrights they no longer represent, or CMOs distributing money badly.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 agoI’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 agoThose are new to me; thank you.
- saaaaaam 4y agoYou'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