Dear Francesca Talamini,
You raise a difficult and important question.
In my opinion, the issue is well summarized by this ISMIR 2019 by Chen, Keast, Moody, Moriarty, Villalobos, Winter, Zhang et al.
"Data Usage in MIR: History and Future Recommendations"
The MIR community faces unique challenges in terms of data
access, due in large part to country-specific copyright laws. As
a result, there is an emerging divide in the MIR research
community between labs that have access to music through large
companies with abundant funds, and independent labs at smaller
institutions who do not have such expansive access. This paper
explores how independent researchers have worked to overcome
limitations of access to music data without contributing to the
crisis of reproducibility. Acknowledging that there is no single
solution for every data access problem that smaller labs face, we
propose a number of possibilities for how the MIR community can
bridge the gap between advancements from large companies and those
within academia. As MIR looks towards the next 20 years,
democratizing and expanding access to MIR research and music data
is critical. Future solutions could include a distributed MIREX
system, an API designed for MIR researchers, and community-led
advocacy to stakeholders.
https://archives.ismir.net/ismir2019/paper/000001.pdf
I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Vincent Lostanlen (CNRS)
Dear list,
We are currently designing an experiment to create a big database covering different music genres depending on music-induced emotions. We are discussing some issues concerning the copyright of the music we want to use, and we would like to hear your opinion or experience on this. You probably know that if you want to use existing music in your experiments then you should have the permission to do so. Do you think that using just short excerpts of music found on, for example, youtube, should be problematic? And what about sharing then the database with other researchers?
I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts and/or experiences.
Best Regards,
Francesca Talamini
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Francesca Talamini, Ph.D.Post-doc fellowInstitut für Psychologie - Universität Innsbruck+43 (0)512 507-56053