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Tue, 04 Jul 2023 11:31:59 +0200

Copyright management in Spain has always been a hot-button issue that has sparked great controversy. Special mention deserves the management of copyright for musical pieces. To manage these rights there is SGAE (General Society of Authors and Publishers) which maintains a certain monopoly. Copyright management is governed by the Intellectual Property Law, which in its 1996 version is somewhat vague regarding distribution criteria. So vague is the wording that it is not clear how SGAE charges broadcasting entities, such as radio stations. In some cases it is done based on the billing volume of the broadcasting entity, applying a percentage. That is, it is independent of the music used by the station and, being so, there is no way to make a fair distribution among the authors who provide that music. In other cases, estimates of music usage are made and based on that the management company bills. This can produce situations where young talented authors with short and less established careers are not receiving adequate compensation for their work and may be discouraged from continuing their career in this field.

Precisely the objective of this project is to investigate the techniques that would allow developing a system capable of i) discriminating the use made of music in radio media according to its classification in the new Intellectual Property Law (solution to the first problem) and ii) associating the exact use made of the musical piece to its original author in order to make an equitable distribution of copyright royalties (solution to the second problem). The development of this proposal would represent a significant innovation in the music world that could be an important source, not only of potential clients worldwide, but also of international investments that allow the internationalization of the Extremadura ICT model, both fundamental lines of the Employment, Entrepreneurship and Innovation axis of the Regional Green and Circular Economy Strategy, Extremadura 2030. Notably, due to its evolution and potential trajectory in Extremadura, the ICT sector is an active hub of transversal technology production and a driver of the establishment of software development companies, which can be considered green companies as they do not generate waste.

Results

The article “A Hybrid Multidimensional Recommender System for Radio Programs”, published in the journal “Expert Systems with Applications” by Elsevier, is a direct result of this project.

Its source code is available through two GitHub projects:

A demo is also available.

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Results