Class of Advanced Relationships Types for Business Relationships

Description

This is a class of relationships that record relations between Labels. They are all LabelLabelRelationships.

This class (for labels) is similar in purpose to both the PersonalAssociationRelationshipClass and MusicalAssociationRelationshipClass (for artists). Though, as labels don't do music together, and don't have romances together, there is no need for a distinction. Indeed, the only thing labels do together is business.

MusicBrainz purpose is not to capture all the aspects of the economic life of the recording industry. Though possible, there is no point for us in creating labels entries that would represent investors, share-holders, etc, and our "holdings" list should be (merely) limited to the big 4.

Hence, we don't have a way to represent fine-grained ownership relations, or to properly modelize the economic macrocosm (if this is even feasible).

Though, there are business relations that are relevant to music. Furthermore, these relations will greatly help us in keeping the label list structured, which is probably the only way to prevent the labels list from growing out of control due to an unmanageable proliferation of (bogus) label names in a purely flat model.

Relationship Types in this Class

This class contains the following AdvancedRelationshipTypes: (FullSearch macro disabled)

This is the original type definition source for this class:

• business relationship [label--label] <business relationship | business relationship|>

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CategoryRelationshipClass CategoryLabel