Hello,
Thank you for the DCML corpora — the encodings and harmony annotations are
an outstanding resource, and the annotation standard is a real contribution.
I'm writing to ask whether a commercial licensing option exists, or could be
arranged, alongside the CC BY-NC-SA release.
Our use case, stated plainly:
- We are building a small symbolic music generation model for classical
piano and small chamber ensembles, with a strict provenance chain:
every training item is tracked with its source, license, and file hash.
- We would use your scores as training data only. We would not
redistribute the corpora, the scores, or the annotations in any form.
- Our outputs are original compositions rendered to audio; we do not
reproduce or distribute the source works.
- We would of course cite the data reports (Hentschel et al.) in any
publication or documentation.
We are a very small operation, so this is not a large commercial deployment —
but we would rather ask and be correct than assume and be wrong.
Would a commercial or research-to-commercial license be possible? If there
are conditions (attribution, fee, reporting, restrictions on redistribution),
we're glad to work within them.
Thank you for considering this.
Hello,
Thank you for the DCML corpora — the encodings and harmony annotations are
an outstanding resource, and the annotation standard is a real contribution.
I'm writing to ask whether a commercial licensing option exists, or could be
arranged, alongside the CC BY-NC-SA release.
Our use case, stated plainly:
piano and small chamber ensembles, with a strict provenance chain:
every training item is tracked with its source, license, and file hash.
redistribute the corpora, the scores, or the annotations in any form.
reproduce or distribute the source works.
publication or documentation.
We are a very small operation, so this is not a large commercial deployment —
but we would rather ask and be correct than assume and be wrong.
Would a commercial or research-to-commercial license be possible? If there
are conditions (attribution, fee, reporting, restrictions on redistribution),
we're glad to work within them.
Thank you for considering this.