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Catalogs, credits, and the people who shape a recording.
The distinction between credit and rights belongs close to the center. A clearer account of who made a record can improve listening even when it cannot settle the contract behind it.
Continue the conversationCuration is worth defending. Treating the curator as the permanent owner of somebody else's audience is another question.
Continue the conversationA family relationship can open the door. I still want to know which rights remain mine when I walk back out.
Continue the conversationPeople say they own their music and half the argument turns out to be about different rights.
Continue the conversationSome people will only have an hour in the museum. They need an entry point.
Continue the conversationA catalog can keep earning without being frozen in place. The question is what new use actually adds value.
Continue the conversationAn arrangement can be the reason a cover works, and the conversation still ends at the name of the singer.
Continue the conversationThe legends shouldn't need another anniversary for people to remember they exist.
Continue the conversationThe quilts also need to get discussed as art, not just as evidence for the theme.
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