Quoting m.cellophane:

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I'm confused by the back and forth. Can we address some specific examples please.

For "Jack in the Beanstalk" (1952), there is a credit that reads "From a Story by". Am I allowed to include that as "Story by" or not, since "Story by" != "From a Story by"?

The current wording of the rules do not allow "from a story by"

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For "Becket", there is a credit that says "Based Upon the Play 'Becket'". Is that OMB or does it have to be OCB since it's "based on another work"?

Again not allowed

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Same question for "Missing" which has a credit reading "Based on the Book 'Missing'".

"Casino Royale" (2006) has a credit which reads "Based on the Novel". I didn't record in DVDP whether the name of the novel is noted in the credit or not.

"Thunderball" has credits reading "Based on an Original Screenplay" (OMB?) and "Based on the Original Story" ("Story by" or not, since "Based on the Original Story != "Story by").

Again all those "based on ..." are not allowed with the current wording of the rules.

When Invelos recently has updated the rules to name the actually available columns "Role" and "Credited As" from the old non existent "Film Credits To Include", they have reinforced the principal that only role names literally listed in the table may be used.

IMO This has been a big mistake. An exhaustive list of allowed role names is doomed to fail because the film makers are much more creative (even for role names) than we can imagine.

IMO The rules have to be changed to allow spelling variants and functional equivalents to crew roles.

In foreign language credits we have the same problems with the wording "direct translation" which do not allow most of the non English crew roles.

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