The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #165955   Message #3986921
Posted By: GUEST
11-Apr-19 - 01:21 PM
Thread Name: The problem with Discogs
Subject: RE: The problem with Discogs
Phil you don't get it. Discogs is sometimes cicrulating drivel.. it's auto created composer/author pages are linked to Google - this is nothing to do with submitters - it's the tech harvesting. Also the miscredits are coming up as fact.. separately linking songs to performers who had nothing to do with the work, misspelled names, wrong authors etc. It is not just the original submission page but spurious 'facts' that appear when you Google a song, without even visiting the site. The public see this wrong information as fact.   It is not documenting 'what is'.. it's creating false examples of 'what is' in its own separate composition pages when you click on a title. This is not the legal writers of works, this is infringement of the paternity right. These false credits are appearing high up when you Google a song title and shouldn't even be there.   it's also giving out drivel about when a song first appears, and is often unable to differentiate between different recordings of the same song.