Quoting tas314:

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Looking at the two cover scans (and a few others), and both titles are "The Sound of Music". What's the problem?

There is no problem, Skip is just trying to stir things up.

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You guys sooooo don't get it. Thank you for the entertainment. It's been fun.

Incredible.

Skip            

Skip, you make it really hard to take your opinions [and they are just that] serious; here's some quotes from this very thread, all from your posts:

a) I have learned not to be definitive
b) you and the othgers are too busy trying to defend your indefensible position
c) I am trying very hard NOT to be judgemental

Quite obviously they and many other utterings by you are hardly consistent. You claim to be non-judgemental but are laughing at those not sharing your opinions. You also claim to be not definitive but call other people's position 'indefensible' - just as if there is a definitive answer to the problem at hand. That's judgemental and definitive.


Well, back to the topic at hand.

While I can see the merits of the statement 'this is DVD Profiler, not Movie Profiler', it has often enough been pointed out that most DVDs we have in the collection have a main feature - a movie, which usually gives the whole thing the name. It has also been pointed out that possessives are marketing instruments foremost to give goods a brand name. The brands 'Alfred Hitchcock' or 'William Shakespeare' come to mind, where both are used differently. I won't rehash that.

Most people - I even venture to say: all - talk about films and DVDs with the title leaving out any possessives, sometimes even those that are part of the title for good reasons [Mary Shelley's Frankenstein].

Now, the rules state:

Include possessives if the front cover includes them, and if they are verifiably part of the title.

There is a slight ambiguity as it is not quite clear if the title of the movie proper is meant or the name of the DVD [since I use different terms here, my position should be clear]. I am sure some will even contest what 'verifiable' means here - taken from the front cover, the back cover, the spine, probably even menus, or from the good old staples of scientific, historical and philosophical quest: unconnected, independent sources.

This is not a plead for one source, particularly not a notoriously unreliable one. It is a plead for common sense, a little research [as in 'scholarly'] and sensible decisions. In other threads on this issue some databases containing movie titles had been suggested, like those containing legal registration for titles.

BTW, the 'make it local' cuts both ways, making it a very lame argument.