Topic on User talk:Jc86035

Hola!

I've been working on an interesting case (from a WD standpoint, not musically ;-) ), the song 19 by Paul Hardcastle. This became a massive hit in 1985, and was in large part based on samples of dialogue from the documentary film Vietnam Requiem. As a result the director and screenwriter of that film were awarded CA (composer/Author) credits by an American court. To add insult to injury, Mike Oldfield then claimed the song plagiarized parts of his original composition Tubular Bells, Pt. 1 and again Hardcastle lost out.

In order to model this I have created legal credit and sample credit, but it still feels a little wonky and I'm not quite sure what should go where. What I'm looking for is someone to critique it, do you have the time?

I'm not sure. object has role (P3831) could be a safer route than nature of statement (P5102) here, but what you're doing might make more sense. I might expand this in some way so that it would be possible to indicate things like "unofficial", "in name only" and "legally required" for any given statement (independent of the indication that the statement is because of sampling), but I don't know how that would be done.

There's also Property:P1773 (attributed to), but what I'm focused on here are the "official" attributions as found in ASCAP, BMI, ISWC-Net, etc. Anyways, thx for having a look!