On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Brian Schweitzer < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Jeroen van den Brink <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> >> On 3/5/2010 1:40 PM, Philipp Wolfer wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Pavan Chander<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> I poked around the LyricWiki site a bit, and it seems that they enforce >> >> their own version of a DRM ;) As part of their agreement with >> Gracenote, all >> >> official lyrics have the ability to copy the text disabled. >> >> This suggests that the official lyrics are *not* supposed to be >> copy/pasted >> >> into the community version. >> >> So I think that we should give preference to the community version, but >> if >> >> only an official version exists then that's alright to link to as well. >> >> Pavan Chander // navap >> >> >> > +1, sounds reasonable >> > >> +1, agreed! >> > > From the point of view of our being ourselves a collection of community > edited data, it sounds good and consistent for MB. However, what is the > actual rationale behind this suggestion? Wouldn't one expect official > lyrics, vs unofficial lyrics, to be the more definitively correct ones? > Perhaps, but I think there are other things to consider as well. For example: * The community page link to the official page (and not vice versa). * The community page provide metadata, trivia, external links, the official page does not. * The community page is the page that will be used to link back to MusicBrainz. And lastly, compare the community artist page with the official page: * http://lyrics.wikia.com/Metallica <http://lyrics.wikia.com/Metallica>* http://lyrics.wikia.com/Gracenote:Metallica Pavan Chander // navap
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