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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".
+
+
+
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+Object-based audio production dataset "Protest"
+===============================================
+
+This dataset contains an object-based audio scene packaged as a project for the digital audio workstation Reaper http://www.reaper.fm
+
+It is available through the DOI 10.17866/rd.salford.9767003 https://doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.9767003 .
+
+To use this dataset, the VISR Production Suite, a set of free and open-source VST3 plugins, must be downloaded and installed from 
+https://s3a-spatialaudio.org/plugins .
+
+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
+
+S3A project, “Protest - An object-based production dataset", 2019, DOI: 10.17866/rd.salford.9767003
+
+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.
+
+The most current version of the dataset is also available as a public git repository:
+https://gitlab.eps.surrey.ac.uk/s3a-public/s3a-scene-protest .
+
+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.