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Where do the licence layers of an open V2A model disagree or stack (ThinkSound's Apache vs non-commercial text, Stability's VAE licence, VGGSound/AudioSet/BBC training data)?

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ThinkSound publishes four incompatible-looking statements: HF weights card Apache-2.0 (S15, S16), GitHub README Apache-2.0 headline but research-only/no commercial use (S17), a bundled Stability AI Community License for the fine-tuned VAE (S18; commercial use needs registration and a revenue condition), and a paper statement that the dataset is strictly academic/non-commercial (S14). Its training sources include VGGSound (page: CC BY 4.0, copyright remains with video owners), AudioSet (CC BY 4.0 annotations for YouTube-linked data), Freesound and BBC Sound Effects (site: personal/educational use or license). A permissive label on one file does not resolve the others.

ThinkSound publishes four incompatible-looking statements: HF weights card Apache-2.0 (S15, S16), GitHub README Apache-2.0 headline but research-only/no commercial use (S17), a bundled Stability AI Community License for the fine-tuned VAE (S18; commercial use needs registration and a revenue condition), and a paper statement that the dataset is strictly academic/non-commercial (S14). Its training sources include VGGSound (page: CC BY 4.0, copyright remains with video owners), AudioSet (CC BY 4.0 annotations for YouTube-linked data), Freesound and BBC Sound Effects (site: personal/educational use or license). A permissive label on one file does not resolve the others. Curator qualifications: Stability AI Community License Agreement 'Last Updated: July 5, 2024'; 'This Agreement is intended to allow research, non-commercial, and limited commercial uses of the Models free of charge'; '3. COMMERCIAL USE LICENSE'; 'If You are using or distributing the Stability AI Materials for a Commercial Purpose, You must register with Stability AI ... If at any time You or Your Affiliate(s) ... generate more than USD $1,000,000 in annual revenue ... any licenses granted to You under this Agreement shall terminate as of such date'. README: 'Commercial use and redistribution require prior permission from Stability AI.' Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: [rights_conflict_record] eligible_rights_conflict_preserved Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
Structured fields
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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/FunAudioLLM/ThinkSound/blob/7f152d1a088f91b21307337060216f0dec8d4a8f/README.md",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/QwenAudio/ThinkSound/blob/4e2cfd57efaaf40c90460d8111b6a3c1e7dfb2f0/README.md",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/QwenAudio/ThinkSound/blob/4e2cfd57efaaf40c90460d8111b6a3c1e7dfb2f0/third_party/LICENSE_StabilityAI.md",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21448v3",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/vggsound/",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://research.google.com/audioset/download.html",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/liuhuadai/AudioCoT/blob/7d539a76561a2343cb0b6a3682eedb8620af634e/README.md",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] ThinkSound publishes four incompatible-looking statements: HF weights card Apache-2.0 (S15, S16), GitHub README Apache-2.0 headline but research-only/no commercial use (S17), a bundled Stability AI Community License for the fine-tuned VAE (S18; commercial use needs registration and a revenue condition), and a paper statement that the dataset is strictly academic/non-commercial (S14). Its training sources include VGGSound (page: CC BY 4.0, copyright remains with video owners), AudioSet (CC BY 4.0 annotations for YouTube-linked data), Freesound and BBC Sound Effects (site: personal/educational use or license). A permissive label on one file does not resolve the others. · locator: see curator disposition source

Rights

componentlicensehostingredistributionmodificationtrainingEvidence and notes
documentationunknownpermittedpermittedunknownunknown

Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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