Copyright: Musician and Lawyer Game System, Generate Melody Rainbow Table

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Tue Feb 25 15:31:15 PST 2020


https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmically-generate-every-possible-melody-release-them-to-public-domain
https://www.vondranlegal.com/what-constitutes-independent-creation-in-copyright-law
http://allthemusic.info/
https://github.com/allthemusicllc/atm-cli
https://archive.org/download/allthemusicllc-datasets
600GB

Two programmer-musicians wrote every possible MIDI melody in existence
to a hard drive, copyrighted the whole thing, and then released it all
to the public in an attempt to stop musicians from getting sued.
Programmer, musician, and copyright attorney Damien Riehl, along with
fellow musician/programmer Noah Rubin, sought to stop copyright
lawsuits that they believe stifle the creative freedom of artists.


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