Some of you have likely seen me complaining about IPs with a TV-streaming show being habitually tagged with the company most well-known for their streaming distribution, regardless of rights ownership.^{Imagine if you had to tag any TV network that ever ran a program.} I'd like to give these concerns their own space here, outline some common examples, and have a space for possible solutions.^{Before I jump to reporting it for tag vandalism, I guess..}
A question: Should Netflix be tagged for "its" shows at all? It's been my understanding that tags for cartoon_network and nickelodeon exist because the shows they broadcast are in-house productions, but most of the properties implying Netflix are merely commissioned and distributed by them, much in the same manner as traditional TV networks. Should exclusive distribution count for copyright tagging?

Some IPs with clear origins/ownership/broadcasting outside the platform they're tagged with:

beastars netflix: (quote from linked) Beastars (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Paru Itagaki. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion from September 2016 to October 2020
aggressive_retsuko netflix: Had a 100 episode series before Netflix touched them, continues to have comic book releases and a mobile game.
brand_new_animal netflix: Staggered release first on Netflix, began airing on Japanese TV between Netflix release stages.
bluey_(series) disney: Jointly commissioned by the Australian and British Broadcasting Corporations. This one's a relatively small spill ^{most posts there actually have elements from actual Disney properties}, though it's concerning that some commenters think the property is owned by Disney.

magnuseffect said:
Should exclusive distribution count for copyright tagging?

IMO, no, since exclusive deals can still be time-limited deals. Once the time limit expires, there's nothing to prevent it from going to a different distributor (potentially even switching to in-house distribution) where its no longer associated with the previous distributor, requiring implications to be redone and old posts with the now-incorrect tag to be cleaned up.

watsit said:
IMO, no, since exclusive deals can still be time-limited deals. Once the time limit expires, there's nothing to prevent it from going to a different distributor (potentially even switching to in-house distribution) where its no longer associated with the previous distributor, requiring implications to be redone and old posts with the now-incorrect tag to be cleaned up.

Wait, implied tags aren't automatically removed on next post change when the associated implication is no longer active?

magnuseffect said:
Some of you have likely seen me complaining about IPs with a TV-streaming show being habitually tagged with the company most well-known for their streaming distribution, regardless of rights ownership.^{Imagine if you had to tag any TV network that ever ran a program.} I'd like to give these concerns their own space here, outline some common examples, and have a space for possible solutions.^{Before I jump to reporting it for tag vandalism, I guess..}
A question: Should Netflix be tagged for "its" shows at all? It's been my understanding that tags for cartoon_network and nickelodeon exist because the shows they broadcast are in-house productions, but most of the properties implying Netflix are merely commissioned and distributed by them, much in the same manner as traditional TV networks. Should exclusive distribution count for copyright tagging?

Some IPs with clear origins/ownership/broadcasting outside the platform they're tagged with:

beastars netflix: (quote from linked) Beastars (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Paru Itagaki. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion from September 2016 to October 2020
aggressive_retsuko netflix: Had a 100 episode series before Netflix touched them, continues to have comic book releases and a mobile game.
brand_new_animal netflix: Staggered release first on Netflix, began airing on Japanese TV between Netflix release stages.
bluey_(series) disney: Jointly commissioned by the Australian and British Broadcasting Corporations. This one's a relatively small spill ^{most posts there actually have elements from actual Disney properties}, though it's concerning that some commenters think the property is owned by Disney.

Related: https://e621.net/forum_topics/28359

m3g4p0n1 said:
Wait, implied tags aren't automatically removed on next post change when the associated implication is no longer active?

Not as far as I know. In the general case, a tag implication being removed doesn't inherently mean the implied tag is no longer valid for a given image. For example, if we were to unimply dipstick_ears -> multicolored_ears, that doesn't mean multicolored_ears should be removed from posts with dipstick_ears, because the ears could still be multicolored; we just can't assume they are from the dipstick_ears tag. It may be that it doesn't apply in some images, but it can still in others.