Label Ownership Relationship Type

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This relationship type belongs to the Business to Business Relationship Class.

Description

This describes a situation where one label is (or was) a subsidiary of another label, during a given period of time.​ This should be used either to describe the fact a label is a subdivision of another one, or, through corporate aquisition of the former label, has become a subdivision of another one.

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    Attributes

    “start date”

    The start date for buyouts is the date of the transaction from which the target label became a subsidiary of the other label. For wholly owned subdivisions, use the subdivision's creation date.

    “end date”

    The end date may be either the subdivision's end date, or the date of a later sellout/spin-off.

    Guidelines

    1. Do not use this relation if the transaction concerns only the rights to reissue (part of) the label's catalog. The same goes when a label buys another one only for its catalog, reissuing the releases but dismantling the former label. Either case should instead use the Label Reissue Relationship Type.
    2. Do not use this advanced relationship to attempt to represent facts such as label A owning 0.5% shares in label B's parent corporation. MusicBrainz is not a corporate database, so keep it simple.
    3. Also, do not to break the hierarchy of labels. This should only link between a label and its immediately parent company, not between a label and its top-parent company (or another one somewhere in the scale between), though this may become complicated in some cases.
    4. More complex cases do happen, and labels may change hands a lot of times. Multiple parents for a single label during the same period of time is even possible, such as the case of "shared compilation companies".

    Examples

    Subdivision created by the parent label:
    This page is transcluded from Label Ownership Relationship Type.