• Registered: 2011-08-08

Topic: Difficulties with Works

I checked out Save Me, San Francisco by Train from the public library. I been struggling to Add Work for Save Me, San Francisco. I would like to credit Pat Monahan, Sam Hollander and Dave Katz as writers, but don't know how to. My CD is due August 16, 2012, and I would really like to contribute as much information to MB as I can. I am currently reading the credits in the booklet, so I can use whatever info that is missing from MB.

  • From: Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Registered: 2006-11-19

Re: Difficulties with Works

You go to the Editing menu on the top bar and click Add Work, then you enter the information and after the work is created you can link it to the recording on the CD: from the work page, by clicking Relate To and searching for the recording (remember that you can copy the recording url -or any url- and paste it on the "Relate to" field, if you don't want to search or you can't find it). You can do it the other way around, from the recording page link the work, it doesn't mather.

For what I can see you already added the work, all you need to do is link it to the recording as I just described and then link the work to the authors in a similar way (here too, you can do it from the work page and search for the artist or do it the other way around, and you can copy any url to the Relate To field)

Was that clear?

If you want to add works for all the tracks on teh album (so to add writing credits) there are scripts to make it eaisier.

  • From: Bush country
  • Registered: 2011-12-10

Re: Difficulties with Works

I didn't even know libraries allowed people to check out CDs anymore.

  • From: Tartu, EE
  • Registered: 2010-11-24

Re: Difficulties with Works

huh, my local library allows me to check out even vinyl ;)

5 Reply by HibiscusKazeneko (edited by HibiscusKazeneko 2012-08-10 04:45:24)

  • From: Bush country
  • Registered: 2011-12-10

Re: Difficulties with Works

reosarevok wrote:

huh, my local library allows me to check out even vinyl ;)

You're lucky. The last library I've been to (my old junior college library) required all media to be watched/listened to on equipment they kept on premises. They did this as a way to avoid contributing to piracy. There have been scares/concerns since the 1980s about people renting and illegally copying media (starting with VHS and audio cassette tapes and moving on up). The libraries put their media on lockdown in an effort to avoid being accused of acting as an accessory to copyright infringement (even though a court ruled in 1988 that cassette renters were not liable if someone made copies of their media; I used to rent cassettes from my local public library all the time when I was a kid, so this is a relatively new phenomenon).

  • From: here
  • Registered: 2006-12-19

Re: Difficulties with Works

In what country, HibiscusKazeneko?

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  • From: Tartu, EE
  • Registered: 2010-11-24

Re: Difficulties with Works

Has to be the US, nobody else would be so exaggerated. Also, I guess you could take a laptop to the library and rip it there nowadays, heh

  • From: Bush country
  • Registered: 2011-12-10

Re: Difficulties with Works

reosarevok wrote:

Also, I guess you could take a laptop to the library and rip it there nowadays, heh

I wouldn't take a chance on it. The librarians would be watching your every move and there'd be nowhere you could get away with it.
Plus CD ripping is illegal full-stop in some countries (not here in the US yet, but they've tried).

  • From: Tartu, EE
  • Registered: 2010-11-24

Re: Difficulties with Works

Thankfully, as far as I know here in Europe it's only illegal in the UK and they're changing it (if they haven't yet). Actually, in most of the EU going to the library and ripping stuff is perfectly legal and thus librarians have no reason to stop you (I've done it a few times with materials that couldn't be taken out for any reason). Guess it's enough of a grey area in the US for them to be scared to allow it, though, especially with how trigger-happy everyone seems there for suing :/

  • From: Bush country
  • Registered: 2011-12-10

Re: Difficulties with Works

reosarevok wrote:

Thankfully, as far as I know here in Europe it's only illegal in the UK and they're changing it (if they haven't yet). Actually, in most of the EU going to the library and ripping stuff is perfectly legal and thus librarians have no reason to stop you (I've done it a few times with materials that couldn't be taken out for any reason). Guess it's enough of a grey area in the US for them to be scared to allow it, though, especially with how trigger-happy everyone seems there for suing :/

You got that right :P
Realistically, though, there's nothing they can legally do to stop us as long as we own the source material (CDs, DVDs, etc.; you can buy the necessary software at any computer parts store). The movie and music industries have been throwing a collective hissyfit for a long time but as far as I know Sony v. Universal still stands.