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Photos "On The Waterfront", "Lawrence Of Arabia" Courtesy Columbia Pictures Corp.
"The Magnificent Seven" Courtesy United Artists Corp.
"A Summer Place" Courtesy Warner Bros.
"Cleopatra" Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Productions
None of those four companies exist as Artists in the database. Should I create them by linking Photography By credits, or just list them as unlinked Photography credits?
Instead of using a credit, I put information like 'courtesy of' or 'from the archives of' in notes, with links to the respective company or personal pages if they exist in Discogs.
StaticGuru
None of those are photography credits, they just say who provided and/or gave permission to use the photos.
Correct. And you should
seppuku
put information like 'courtesy of' or 'from the archives of' in notes, with links to the respective company or personal pages if they exist in Discogs.
I am of the opinion that the Release Notes is the right place for these "Photos Courtesy Of" credits. But that is just my opinion (and from this and the older thread, the opinion of many others). So I will leave this where I had already put it, in the Release Notes of the release I recently edited: Stanley Black Conducting The London Festival Orchestra - Film Spectacular Volume II
If we decide to go that direction we will need to decimate Artists like Getty Images, just as one example among many.
But as was pointed out in that older thread, not everyone agrees about this. So I think we probably need specific guidance from management about this...
