What terms do MedleyDB and FMA state for their audio, annotations and metadata, and do they address model training?
MedleyDB's pages offer the dataset for non-commercial research under Creative Commons (named both as Attribution-NonCommercial and as BY-NC-SA 4.0) and ask users not to republish without consent; the Zenodo audio record (v1.0) is access-restricted with no licence field and points to a GitHub repository for annotations whose LICENSE is MIT, while the description page says audio and annotations are released under BY-NC-SA. FMA separates MIT code, CC BY 4.0 metadata and per-artist audio licences, for research purposes. Neither text addresses model training.
MedleyDB's pages offer the dataset for non-commercial research under Creative Commons (named both as Attribution-NonCommercial and as BY-NC-SA 4.0) and ask users not to republish without consent; the Zenodo audio record (v1.0) is access-restricted with no licence field and points to a GitHub repository for annotations whose LICENSE is MIT, while the description page says audio and annotations are released under BY-NC-SA. FMA separates MIT code, CC BY 4.0 metadata and per-artist audio licences, for research purposes. Neither text addresses model training.
Curator qualifications: Annotation-licence conflict preserved (BY-NC-SA per site vs MIT LICENSE in the repository holding annotations); no resolution. MedleyDB licence phrasing differs within the downloads page (BY-NC vs BY-NC-SA 4.0). Absence of model-training statements is a negative over the texts read only. Page/API text only; no audio downloaded (Zenodo access restricted). 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: Live pages and one repository commit. [component_reuse_restriction] Do not use MedleyDB audio or annotations in commercial or redistributed fixtures; FMA audio needs per-track licence checks.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
Structured fields
{
"citations": [
{
"url": "https://medleydb.weebly.com/downloads.html",
"note": "medleydb.weebly.com/downloads.html; description.html; zenodo.org/api/records/1649325; marl/medleydb LICENSE at 537bb7ba; mdeff/fma README lines 294-297 at 607364e7"
},
{
"url": "https://medleydb.weebly.com/description.html",
"note": "medleydb.weebly.com/downloads.html; description.html; zenodo.org/api/records/1649325; marl/medleydb LICENSE at 537bb7ba; mdeff/fma README lines 294-297 at 607364e7"
},
{
"url": "https://zenodo.org/api/records/1649325",
"note": "medleydb.weebly.com/downloads.html; description.html; zenodo.org/api/records/1649325; marl/medleydb LICENSE at 537bb7ba; mdeff/fma README lines 294-297 at 607364e7"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/marl/medleydb/blob/537bb7bad0601fc58e4fff8404f71658b86ef60e/LICENSE",
"note": "medleydb.weebly.com/downloads.html; description.html; zenodo.org/api/records/1649325; marl/medleydb LICENSE at 537bb7ba; mdeff/fma README lines 294-297 at 607364e7"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/mdeff/fma/blob/607364e7d8263f890d23c838802f29637600611f/README.md",
"note": "medleydb.weebly.com/downloads.html; description.html; zenodo.org/api/records/1649325; marl/medleydb LICENSE at 537bb7ba; mdeff/fma README lines 294-297 at 607364e7"
}
]
}Evidence claims
- [sourced_fact] MedleyDB's pages offer the dataset for non-commercial research under Creative Commons (named both as Attribution-NonCommercial and as BY-NC-SA 4.0) and ask users not to republish without consent; the Zenodo audio record (v1.0) is access-restricted with no licence field and points to a GitHub repository for annotations whose LICENSE is MIT, while the description page says audio and annotations are released under BY-NC-SA. FMA separates MIT code, CC BY 4.0 metadata and per-artist audio licences, for research purposes. Neither text addresses model training. · locator: medleydb.weebly.com/downloads.html; description.html; zenodo.org/api/records/1649325; marl/medleydb LICENSE at 537bb7ba; mdeff/fma README lines 294-297 at 607364e7 source
Rights
| component | license | hosting | redistribution | modification | training | Evidence and notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| documentation | unknown | permitted | permitted | unknown | unknown | Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources. |
Linked records
- cites → https://github.com/marl/medleydb/blob/537bb7bad0601fc58e4fff8404f71658b86ef60e/LICENSE
- cites → https://github.com/mdeff/fma/blob/607364e7d8263f890d23c838802f29637600611f/README.md
- cites → https://medleydb.weebly.com/description.html
- cites → https://medleydb.weebly.com/downloads.html
- cites → https://zenodo.org/api/records/1649325