Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they're all on this hard drive)

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It is the go-to explainer whenever HN discusses brute-forcing melodies, copyright, or AI-generated content, since it features the project's creators.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Adam Neely

Topic

music copyright

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• At the very beginning of this excellent interview [VIDEO] that I found in the comments here, they explain this. Apparently, for this to work, they have to "affix them to a physical medium". Strongly recommend watching that video! Excellent info.

• Those are precisely the objections I'd raised with the Damien Rhiel (submitted via email, no response). Additionally there's the problem of releasing the works to the public domain. As discussed a couple of weeks ago when the 2016 billion-dollar infringement lawsuit against Getty Images was …

• If someone automates music creation in the popular styles and then automates submitting it for copyright protection, then in not so distant future creation of any music will be illegal, as every nice sounding melody will be claimed. In a way this is what large …