6.4 Stage Names and Legal Names

In many cases artists use their legal name – or a shortened version thereof – as their stage name. Such names should be communicated as being both StageName and LegalName as shown below:

<Party>

    <PartyReference>P1</PartyReference>

    <PartyId>

        <ISNI>0000000081266409</ISNI>

    </PartyId>

    <PartyName>

        <PartyNameType>LegalName</PartyNameType>

        <PartyNameType>StageName</PartyNameType>

        <FullName>

            <Name>Achim Reichel</Name>

        </FullName>

    </PartyName>   

    <PartyType>

      <Value>NaturalPerson</Value>

    </PartyType>

</Party>

If only a legal name is provided, receivers of a PIE message should not infer that this name can be used for display or credit information for specific products, as data provided in a PIE message is intended to provide rich party metadata for biographical cross-referencing only.

Display and credit information should only be extracted from a product feed from an authorised source (e.g. using the NewReleaseMessage defined in the Electronic Release Notification Message Suite).

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