[pdb-discuss] Something concrete we could do in the next week

[Rufus Pollock]

Nathan Lewis wrote:
> On the heuristics it occurred to me that we don't need to precisely 
> match the artist, we just need to check the artist's life span and if 
> the artist died long enough ago then we can add that artist to our list 
> and search for every track solely done by that artist.

Exactly though remember that to be truly PD track must also be more than 
50 years old -- which is why i don't think we will find many pd tracks 
in musicbrainz at present even though we mind find quite a few composers 
who died more than 70 years ago. For out of copyright recordings we are 
really going to start needing to upload/analyse the BBC 'grams' (i.e. 
gramaphone) data.

Regards,

Rufus