3 How Will The Results Be Reported?

3.1 Preliminary results published during the survey

To make our research objectives easier to understand and to increase the motivation for respondents to fill out the survey, we publish past and preliminary results throughout the project. We avoid influencing the ongoing survey, publishing only thought provoking outtakes, or examples of why our survey is important.

3.2 Statistical Data Releases

Our aim is to create a scientifically valid and authoritative data source that can be used, for example, as evidence in front of royalty tribunals or courts. We never give out individual-level data, but we carefully aggregate the answers by country, genre, sex, and other demographic variables, provided that we receive back enough questionnaires from each group (for example, Brazilian jazz performers, male/female.) In case we do not have enough responses, we only create statistics for Brazilian jazz, or only for Brazilian performance in average.

Our data will go through different levels of auditing before we make them available to our distribution partners.

The CEEMID survey program was re-launched in a new organizational form by its former team under the name Reprex. Reprex puts all of its critical statistical software code available for public scrutiny and statistical peer-review, apply automated unit-testing, and seek the verification of its methodology with researchers at leading academic institutions.

An authoritative copy of the datasets will be placed on Figshare, a scientific data depository. Data will be available for download with proper document identification, standardized citation files, and in several files formats on music.dataobservatory.eu with short descriptive texts about the methodology and meaning of the indicator. All partners will receive a notification when the data is available for use.

On the very same website, you find about 50 high-quality music indicators that will put the survey results into context.

3.3 Consolidated Independent Global Music Report

The Consolidated Independent Global Music Report will be available free of charge in various formats in English language. Last year our findings were presented in almost all participating country’s main music conferences. Given the current pandemic, such presentations may be held online.

3.4 Reports for Co-Commissioning Partners

Co-funding partners will receive a short, localized version of the report, which will contrast their national / segment data with other nations / segments, by their choice, in English, or in two languages, and in the case of bilingual countries where English is not an official language, in three languages.

For localized reports and co-commissioning opportunities, please get in touch with Peter Bradwell at peter.bradwell@state51.co.uk, or if you receive this information from any Consolidated Independent or Reprex team member, just inquire through our colleague who is in touch with you.

3.5 Other Potential Industry Uses

CEEMID’s successor, Reprex is a reproducible research company that uses advanced data integration and analytics, for valuations, machine learning for various music industry related tasks, such as royalty tariff setting, private copying compensation calculations, export market targeting, ex post valuation of grant suitability, or ex ante grant design. (For such special cases, you can see a few examples and references here)

The music professional surveys were designed to fill in data gaps in existing official statistics and music industry databases for these purposes. They have a relatively standard international best practice, and we do not believe that grant design or export market targeting requires a very different approach for non-EU developed markets, apart from the U.S. because of the country’s special dominant role in the global markets.

Regarding valuations, tariff settings and compensations, our survey data, and whatever data that needs to be integrated with the survey data had only been used in cases that fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of the European Union (or lower national tribunals.) In other words, should the survey results be used in a similar contexts outside of the European Union, a case-by-case approach should apply. While valuation standards and copyright law is governed by international law, and they are in principle similarly applied in all developed and even emerging nations, the type of factual or format of evidence that is admissible in such cases may differ in each jurisprudence. (In the EU, usually directly applicable case law applies for all EU and EEA countries, and to the United Kingdom.)

The Consolidated Independent Global Music Report and Reports for Co-Founding Partners are not research products designed for such specific uses. The reports, and their data content that will be released in tabular data format may be used for any of these purposes, but we cannot guarantee their suitability without a more precise local context, and anyway, their use will require competent professionals. If you need data for such purposes, it is likely that our reports and data must be combined with other data sources and analysis, and that is not included in the aforementioned products. If you need help with such uses, contact Reprex’s co-founder Daniel Antal, CFA directly.