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THE RIGHTS FOUNDRY COLLECTION ONE
Non-Commercial Research and Evaluation License
1. Acceptance. By requesting access to The Rights Foundry Collection One (the Corpus, meaning the audio recordings, metadata, captions, and embedded identifiers together), you agree to these terms with The Rights Foundry, Inc., a Delaware corporation (TRF). If you are accepting on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you have authority to bind it, and "you" means that organization.
2. Definitions. "Non-Commercial Use" means academic research, education, personal study, analysis, benchmarking, model evaluation, and the training of experimental models that are not deployed, distributed, or made available commercially in any form. Internal research or testing conducted by or for a commercial entity to evaluate, develop, improve, or support a current or planned product, service, model, or revenue generating activity is Commercial Use, except that a commercial entity may conduct limited internal technical evaluation solely to determine whether to obtain a commercial license from TRF ("Evaluation Use"). Under Evaluation Use, a commercial entity may create temporary test models for that evaluation, but may not deploy or distribute them, use them or their results to develop or improve a product or service, or retain reusable model weights after the evaluation unless TRF grants a commercial license. "Commercial Use" means any other use of the Corpus, in whole or in part, intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or monetary compensation, by you or by anyone you enable.
3. License grant. TRF grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free license, revocable as provided in Section 15, to download and use the Corpus solely for Non-Commercial Use and Evaluation Use.
4. Permitted research activity. You may analyze the Corpus, extract features from it, benchmark and evaluate models against it, and train experimental models on it. You may publish papers, benchmark results, aggregate statistics, research code, documentation, and non-commercial research demonstrations based on the Corpus, provided no demonstration gives third parties systematic access to generate, retrieve, or download audio. You may distribute model weights and non-reconstructive feature representations created through permitted research only after reasonable testing confirms that they do not contain, reproduce, expose, or permit reconstruction of any recording or any substantial portion of one. They must be accompanied by the required Corpus attribution and distributed under this license or terms at least as protective of Sections 4 through 7, 11, and 12.
5. Prohibited uses. No Commercial Use of any kind, of the Corpus or of anything derived from it, in whole or in part. Without limiting that, you will not: train or fine tune any model that is or will be made commercially available or deployed in a product or service, including through a hosted or software as a service inference endpoint or API; publish, release, or monetize any output that reproduces, is recognizably based on, or permits reconstruction of a Corpus recording or a substantial portion of one; redistribute, re-host, mirror, or include the Corpus, any track, or any portion of the metadata or captions in another dataset or collection; distribute any track to any streaming, download, or user generated content platform; sell, rent, or transfer the Corpus or any track; or create derivative musical works, remixes, or edits for release. You will comply with applicable law and respect third party rights in all use of the Corpus.
6. Rights systems. You will not register or attempt to register any Corpus recording, excerpt, fingerprint, derivative, model output, or associated rights information with any content identification system, digital distributor, performing rights organization, neighboring rights organization, copyright registry, or rights management service, and you will not assert ownership of, or initiate any claim, takedown, or monetization action relating to, any Corpus material.
7. Voice and identity. You may use the Corpus for bona fide Non-Commercial Use involving voice analysis, speech or singing voice synthesis, speaker recognition, speaker identification, and related academic research. You may not use the Corpus or anything derived from it to impersonate, deceive, harass, exploit, or falsely suggest the participation, approval, or endorsement of any person. You may not create, publish, distribute, or make available a model, service, output, or demonstration that enables third parties to clone, simulate, or replicate an identifiable person’s voice or vocal identity without that person’s documented consent and all other legally required rights. You may not deploy the Corpus or anything derived from it for biometric identification, authentication, surveillance, eligibility, employment, credit, insurance, healthcare, or other decisions concerning an identifiable person. This license does not authorize commercial voice cloning or any other Commercial Use.
8. Ownership and licensing authority. Each master recording and musical composition in the Corpus is owned outright by a single source rights holder. TRF has the rights and authority necessary to make the Corpus available and to grant this license, and TRF is the licensor under this license. No ownership in any recording, composition, performance, or metadata transfers to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved.
9. Your research materials. As between you and TRF, you retain ownership of your independently developed research code, analyses, model architectures, model weights, and research results. That ownership does not extend to the Corpus or any recording, composition, or metadata, and does not remove the restrictions of this license.
10. Organization access. If you accept for an organization, the organization may permit its employees, students, researchers, and individual contractors to use the Corpus solely for the organization’s permitted use under this license, provided they are informed of and bound by these terms. The organization is responsible for their compliance. Access credentials may not be shared.
11. Integrity. You will not remove, alter, or obscure any metadata, rights information, or embedded identifier in the files, and you will keep the rights information associated with any excerpt or feature set you create from the Corpus.
12. Attribution. Publications, public benchmarks, and model documentation that use the Corpus must cite it as described on the dataset card.
13. Commercial licensing. This license grants no Commercial Use rights. Commercial Use requires a separate written commercial license from TRF. To request a commercial license, including for model training intended for production deployment, visit therightsfoundry.com/huggingfacecollectionone or contact licensing@therightsfoundry.com.
14. Access information. You acknowledge that the access information you provide through the platform gate (such as your name, email address, and organization) is shared with TRF, which may use it to administer this license and to contact you about licensing, in accordance with TRF’s privacy policy at therightsfoundry.com/privacy.
15. Term and termination. This license continues until terminated. TRF may terminate immediately upon unauthorized redistribution, Commercial Use, or breach of Section 6 or Section 7. For any other remediable breach, TRF will give notice and thirty days to cure before termination. TRF may withdraw individual recordings from the Corpus where legally required or where a rights claim arises, and you will delete withdrawn recordings on notice. On termination you will delete all copies of the Corpus in your possession or control. Papers, benchmark results, and aggregate statistics properly published during the term may remain available, and model weights properly created and distributed under Section 4 during the term may continue to be used and distributed on the same non-commercial terms. Sections 5 through 9, 11 through 17, and any other provisions that by their nature should survive termination, survive termination.
16. Disclaimers and limitation of liability. Except for TRF’s express statement in Section 8 that it has authority to grant this license, the Corpus is provided as is, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including title, non-infringement, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose. To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither TRF nor its licensors, catalog partners, or rights holders will be liable for indirect, consequential, incidental, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, and TRF’s total aggregate liability arising out of this license is limited to one hundred US dollars. TRF’s licensors, catalog partners, and rights holders are intended beneficiaries of this Section.
17. General. This license is governed by the laws of the State of California, excluding its conflict of law rules, and the state and federal courts located in Santa Clara County, California have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from it. If any provision is unenforceable, the remainder stands. No failure to enforce is a waiver. You may not assign this license. This license is the entire agreement between you and TRF concerning the Corpus.
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