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View Poll Results: Merge "Independent" and "Doujin/Fanmade" back into "Doujin/Indie"? | |||
Merge | 6 | 50.00% | |
Don't Merge | 6 | 50.00% | |
Voters: 12. You may not vote on this poll |
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Merge "Independent" and "Doujin/Fanmade" publisher types back into "Doujin/Indie"?
Is a separate publisher type necessary for professional artists who self-publish? Or shall we group them together with doujin publishers to avoid confusion?
I'll leave the voting open for a week or more, depending on the response. |
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Perhaps could you tell me what albums in the database should be classified as Independent? As I'm still confused, and not sure how many they are...
http://vgmdb.net/album/8140 http://vgmdb.net/album/11373 http://vgmdb.net/album/16334 Like them? |
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I understand the distinction between the two, so a "merge" is quite unnecessary.
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Yes, those are the types of albums I had in mind.
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Okay, thanks for clarification.
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The initial splitting of these publisher types was prompted by the question: "What if Nobuo Uematsu released an album of original works through his personal website?" Having the doujin/indie type and color-code wouldn't seem appropriate for this.
On the other hand, you could potentially have an artist who alternates between releasing (unauthorized) fan arranges and original soundtracks through his personal netlabel. One would have to be listed as doujin/fanmade and the other as independent, which suggests the field (inappropriately) depends on the content of the release rather than the publisher. A potential solution is to merge the publisher types back together AND make the blue color-coding for Works releases (i.e. no category) to have higher priority than the orange coding for Doujin/indie publisher type, which achieves a closer result to our old system. |
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The descriptions given at the side explaining what is what should be enough; I don't see what's all the hoopla about, really (pardon my bluntness). |
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The 'hoopla' is that it's semantics. An independent release is an independent release regardless of whether it's published by Nobuo Uematsu, ZUN, an independent label, or some really obscure doujin artist. |
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Very interesting topic. For instance, some albums that can be discussed:
Denshi no Umi: arranged free album by the one of the original composers himself. Doujin or/and Independent? We Express Ourselves With T-Shirts: original work by Another Soundscape. He made arrangements on OCRemix albums and he also composed original soundtracks. I agree with everything IRA said, but I don't know if the merge of the two categories would be ideal in my opinion. Besides, I don't know if the solution could be a change of the "Independent" name (since Doujin are also Independent), like "Self-Published" as Datschge suggested. Quote:
http://web.archive.org/web/200409092....co.jp/bk.html Last edited by Revoc; Feb 15, 2010 at 07:36 PM. |
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Yeah, the old system had publisher type + distribution type merged as a single "release type", which caused some overlaps.
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#12
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"Independent" is a irritating misnomer to most people as it refers to releases done independently from music labels. The focus on vgmdb however is not the music labels but the (original) music creators (as persons, groups or companies) so "Self-Published" fits way better. So I'd suggest renaming to that.
"Doujin/Fanmade" is yet another different thing not related to the above, so merging them does nothing to clarify. |
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To clarify my stance on this, I believe there should be three publisher types: Commercial, Not Commercial (name tentative), and Bootleg.
Doujin music is a subset of independent music, it's silly to keep the two separate. If putting them under another name like 'self-published' would make people happier then that works as well. |
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In my opinion, differentiating between an independent release from an artist who has previously been published on a commercial label and a release from an artist who hasn't seems unnecessary, even counter-intuitive.
Surely there is a reason why they have chosen not to release through a label? |
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I voted to keep them separate but after reading about this more, I think I need to know more about this.
We need to first look at what exactly we're trying to describe with the publisher type. It currently seems to actually boil down to a few elements: - Copy rights - Intellectual property rights - Whether the publisher operates to publish only for their own artist or group, or publishes various artists. Here's my current understanding of the new types. Correct me where I'm wrong. - A Commercial album's publisher owns all copy rights and is licensed for IP rights for the album. They publish for various artists. - An Independant album's publisher owns all copy rights and is licensed for IP right for the album. They only publish their own work. - A Doujin/fanmade album's publisher owns the copy rights for the album, but they probably are not licensed for the IP rights of the original compositions. They likely only publish their own work. - A Bootleg album's publisher does not own copy rights nor IP rights for the album. There is no original work added by the publisher of the album, so the question of whose work they publish is irrelevant. By the way, we'll run into an issue with Self-Published vs. Commercial for this type of thing: http://vgmdb.net/album/16078 Music by Shinji Hosoe. Published by SuperSweep, Shinji Hosoe's label.
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You bring up good points.
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So out of all albums with the publisher type Doujin/Fanmade in the database...
So, with all that said, it's correct to say they probably don't own or have the right to use the IP. However, I still feel it's a poor assumption to make. People usually think of doujin work as being based off other material, and while it is quite common (as the above shows) it is not part of the definition. An album being doujin does not mean that the artist does not own the IP. And as for it being self-published, there are those who do, but many release their work as a collective. Quote:
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Does anything have anything else to contribute? I think I'm trying to figure out 1) why the distinction is relevant and 2) if the distinction should be made specifically in this manner.
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I still haven't contributed. My main problem is that I still can't clearly articulate what 'Independent' means. Even after all of the explanations and discussions, it requires judgment of who is professional, and what is a non-professional capacity.
However, I've been thinking that we could use another publication type (or some other indication as appropriate) for free releases -- ones where the public has been granted the right to redistribute the music. |
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There's another simple argument in favor of merging -- there aren't actually that many albums that fit the "independent" publisher type in the database anyway. Here's all of them:
http://vgmdb.net/album/3494 http://vgmdb.net/album/5259 http://vgmdb.net/album/5460 http://vgmdb.net/album/8140 http://vgmdb.net/album/8404 http://vgmdb.net/album/9278 http://vgmdb.net/album/16440 http://vgmdb.net/album/17501 http://vgmdb.net/album/17623 |
#20
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Opinion seems to be evenly divided, but I'm going to go ahead and merge the two publisher types. The albums listed above can serve as reference if we revisit this topic.
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