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-Copyright The Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, UK.
-Copyright Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, UK.
-
-Permission is hereby granted to use the Object-Based Production Dataset for academic 
-and non-commercial purposes only, provided that it is suitably referenced in 
-publications related to its use as follows:
-
-S3A project, “Protest - An object-based production dataset", 2019, 
-DOI: 10.17866/rd.salford.9767000
-
-and/or 
-
-Costantini, G., Franck, A., Pike, C., Francombe, J., Woodcock, J., Hughes, R.,
-Coleman, P., Whitmore, E., and Fazi, F. M., “A Dataset of High-Quality 
-Object-Based Productions,” in AES 147th Convention, New York City, NY, USA, 2019, 
-Engineering Brief.
-
-Re-distribution of the dataset is not permitted.
-
-The content has been created as part of the EPRSC programme grant EP/L000539/1 
-"S3A: Future spatial audio for an immersive listening experience at home".
+This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 
+Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
+To view a copy of this license, visit 
+http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ or send a letter
+to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
 
 
 
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 The content has been created as part of the EPRSC programme grant EP/L000539/1 (EPSRC) "S3A: Future spatial audio for an immersive listening experience at home".
 
-When using this work, please cite it as
 
+When using this work, please cite it as
 S3A project, “Protest - An object-based production dataset", 2019, DOI: 10.17866/rd.salford.9767003
 
 and/or
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 Note: git LFS (Large File Storage) must be installed on the host computer to correctly download the audio content.
 See https://help.github.com/en/articles/installing-git-large-file-storage for guidance.
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+License
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+This work is licensed under the Creative Commons
+Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
+To view a copy of this license, visit
+http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ or send a letter
+to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.