H2020-ICT-2015 AudioCommons H2020-ICT-2015, GA 688382 Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................... 1 Section 1: Excellence ......................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Objectives ................................................................................................................................................ 3 1.2 Relation to the work programme ............................................................................................................. 4 1.3 Concept and approach .............................................................................................................................. 6 1.3.1 Concept ............................................................................................................................................. 6 1.3.2 Technology Readiness Levels of the Audio Commons Ecosystem .................................................. 8 1.3.3 Related research and innovation activities ........................................................................................ 9 1.3.4 Overall approach and methodology ................................................................................................ 12 1.4 Ambition ................................................................................................................................................ 14 1.4.1 Progress beyond state-of-the-art ..................................................................................................... 14 1.4.2 Innovation potential ........................................................................................................................ 17 Section 2: Impact ............................................................................................................................................. 21 2.1 Expected impacts .................................................................................................................................. 21 2.1.1 Expected impact specific to objective ICT19a: Technologies for creative industries, Research and Innovation Action .................................................................................................................................... 21 2.1.2 Enhancing innovation capacity, integration of new knowledge, and delivery to market ............... 22 2.1.3 Other environmental and socially important impacts ..................................................................... 23 2.1.4 Barriers and obstacles to achieve the impact .................................................................................. 24 688382 AudioCommons 1 H2020-ICT-2015 2.2 Measures to maximise impact ................................................................................................................ 24 2.2.1 Scientific dissemination .................................................................................................................. 24 2.2.2 Research data management ............................................................................................................. 25 2.2.3 Knowledge management, protection and IPR ................................................................................ 26 2.2.4 Dissemination to the professional sector and to wider audiences ................................................... 27 2.2.5 Commercial exploitation ................................................................................................................. 28 Section 3: Implementation ............................................................................................................................... 30 3.1 Work plan — Work packages, deliverables and milestones .................................................................. 30 Table 3.1: Work package description ..................................................................................................... 34 Table 3.2: List of milestones .................................................................................................................... 56 3.2 Management structure and procedures .................................................................................................. 57 3.3 Consortium as a whole ........................................................................................................................... 59 Section 4: Members of the consortium ............................................................................................................ 62 4.1 Participants ............................................................................................................................................. 62 4.1.1 Music Technology Group from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (MTG-UPF) ...................................... 62 4.1.2 Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) ................................................................................. 66 4.1.3 University of Surrey (Surrey) ......................................................................................................... 70 4.1.4 Jamendo SA (Jamendo) .................................................................................................................. 74 4.1.5 AudioGaming (AudioGaming) ....................................................................................................... 76 4.1.6 Waves Audio Ltd. (Waves) ............................................................................................................. 79 4.2 Third parties involved in the project (including use of third party resources) ....................................... 81 Section 5: Ethics and Security ......................................................................................................................... 82 5.1 Ethics ...................................................................................................................................................... 82 5.1.1 Involvement of human participants in AudioCommons tasks ........................................................ 82 5.1.2 Detailed information about the procedures implemented for data collection and its handling ...... 82 5.1.3 Gender aspects ................................................................................................................................ 83 5.1.2 Data protection ................................................................................................................................ 83 5.2 Security .................................................................................................................................................. 84 References ........................................................................................................................................................ 85 688382 AudioCommons 2 H2020-ICT-2015 Section 1: Excellence 1.1 Objectives The aim of this project is to bring Creative Commons licensed audio content to the creative industries, enabling its creation, access, retrieval and reuse in innovative ways. The digital value chain that connects content creators and content users follows a traditional model that has not yet been adapted to the modern communication society. The democratisation of multimedia content creation and the social web revolution have changed the way in which multimedia content is created, shared and (re)used all over the world. Online multimedia sharing has experienced a huge growth in the last decade, yielding significant amounts of user- generated multimedia resources, a big part of them shared under open licenses. Furthermore, significant amounts of professionally created multimedia content released with closed licenses, are now becoming available as their licenses expire, but nevertheless remain unused. At the same time, media industries (content users) need to reduce production costs in order to remain competitive. There is, therefore, an opportunity for media industries to incorporate such content in their productions, but there is a lack of technologies for easily accessing and incorporating that type of content in their creative workflows. In the particular case of sound and music, a huge amount of audio material like sound samples, soundscapes and music pieces, is available and released under Creative Commons licenses, both coming from amateur and professional content creators. We refer to this content as the Audio Commons. However, there exist no practical ways in which Audio Commons can be embedded in production workflows of the content users in the creative industries, and licensing issues are not easily handled across the production chain. As a result, most of this content remains unused in professional environments. Closing the gap between content users’ needs and the available Audio Commons generated by content creators would hence be beneficial to both parties. In this project (AudioCommons), we will bring the Audio Commons content to the creative industries. We will enable access and retrieval of audio content in innovative ways that fit the requirements of different use cases of media creation, benefiting content users by reducing production costs and benefiting content creators by exposing their works to professional environments and allowing them to licence their content. The Audio Commons technology layer that will be developed in this project fills in all