Autor/a:
|
Font Corbera, Frederic; Brookes, Tim; Fazekas, George; Guerber, Martin; La Burthe, Amaury; Plans, David; Plumbley, Mark D.; Shaashua, Meir; Wang, Wenwu; Serra, Xavier
|
Abstract:
|
Significant amounts of user-generated audio content, such as sound effects, musical samples
and music pieces, are uploaded to online repositories and made available under open licenses.
Moreover, a constantly increasing amount of multimedia content, originally released with
traditional licenses, is becoming public domain as its copyright expires. Nevertheless, the
creative industries are not yet using much of all this content in their media productions. There
is still a lack of familiarity and understanding of the legal context of all this open content,
but there are also problems related with its accessibility. A big percentage of this content
remains unreachable either because it is not published online or because it is not well organised
and annotated. In this paper we present the Audio Commons Initiative, which is aimed at
promoting the use of open audio content and at developing technologies with which to support
the ecosystem composed by content repositories, production tools and users. These technologies
should enable the reuse of this audio material, facilitating its integration in the production
workflows used by the creative industries. This is a position paper in which we describe the
core ideas behind this initiative and outline the ways in which we plan to address the challenges
it poses. |