Comments on: Automatically generating every melody probably won’t solve music plagiarism litigation https://teleread.org/2020/02/28/automatically-generating-every-melody-probably-wont-solve-music-plagiarism-litigation/ Blog on ebooks, publishing, libraries, tech, and related topics Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:35:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Are We Running Out of Notes? https://teleread.org/2020/02/28/automatically-generating-every-melody-probably-wont-solve-music-plagiarism-litigation/#comment-125117 Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:35:44 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=168069#comment-125117 […] course, Damien and Noah’s effort is meant to make a statement and probably won’t change anything. The Led Zeppelin ruling will have more effect on songwriters (as will the appeal-in-progress on […]

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]]> By: AI and copyright | Making Book https://teleread.org/2020/02/28/automatically-generating-every-melody-probably-wont-solve-music-plagiarism-litigation/#comment-124755 Thu, 05 Mar 2020 15:22:05 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=168069#comment-124755 […] will this work? Chris Meadows at TeleRead doubts it. Of course, as Mr Riehl admits copyright suits can be about more than just melodies, but […]

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]]> By: Michael W. Perry, medical writer https://teleread.org/2020/02/28/automatically-generating-every-melody-probably-wont-solve-music-plagiarism-litigation/#comment-124687 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:18:55 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=168069#comment-124687 Quote: “A pair of musician/coders, one of whom is also a lawyer, think that they’ve found a solution. The idea is to brute-force compile every possible one-octave 12-note melody onto a hard drive, fixing it in tangible form and thus copyrighting it, then releasing it in the public domain.”

Every possible combination? That could be risky. There is a scifi story involving a monastery that believes the world will come to an end when every possible combinations of letters is written down according to certain rules. They’ve been laboring for centuries doing that by hand, and decide to speed up the process by hiring a computer and high-speed printer to do the work.

The computer programers, fearing what will happen when nothing happens, leave the monastery to catch a flight out. As I recall the story, at the airfield one comments that the printing should be finishing up at that very moment. The other is staring at the sky. It closes with, “Overhead, the stars are quietly going out.”

Do we really want to write the the core notes to every song that might ever be written? It might have unexpected consequences.

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