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What terms do MedleyDB and FMA state for their audio, annotations and metadata, and do they address model training?

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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

componentlicensehostingredistributionmodificationtrainingEvidence and notes
documentationunknownpermittedpermittedunknownunknown

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

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