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I think both would be useful, but the most critical would be to be able to make Cat/Kitten so that the copyright history is carried into the merge.
Ex. Employee A from 2005-2008 used Random House, Inc. and Employee B from 2008-Present has used Random House. I want to be able to merge the two together and be able to mark which is the final record. So, in this case, I would want to merge "Random House" into "Random House, Inc." Technically, this issue shouldn't come up because users should know to look for the correct rightsholder...but it always does after years of having a system in place.
Another process that would work, though, is that Random House and Random House, Inc. are merged together and I choose a name for the merged record. This should encapsulate both scenarios you described as long as the records' histories follow them into the new record. Otherwise, I could just delete rightsholders and create new ones - I want to be able to maintain the record of our relationships we have had with our rightsholders.
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I think a group would be great!
I can't imagine a reason a rightsholder would need to be in more than one group, but perhaps that is because the use case I have for this is in tracking parent-subsidiary relationships of publishers - this would make it much easier for me to report on our overall relationship with large rightsholders like Random House, Simon & Schuster, etc etc.
Due to M&A activity in the publishing sector, though, we would need to be able to move rightsholders between groups (i.e. a one small publishing house is sold to another small publishing house) and make an established rightsholder a child of an existing parent (i.e. a large publishing house buys and independent publisher) as well as break away a child from a parent (i.e. the unlikely case a small publisher regains it's independence from a large publisher).
Let me know if you need more info, though! I am happy to provide.