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Re:Musicians algorithmically generate melodies, release them... by wrs on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @04:42PM (#22417797)
Books are just arrangements of ink molecules on paper. You can't have a copyright on ink molecules, right? They're just a natural phenomenon.

Obviously that's silly — the thing with copyright is not the literal arrangement of ink molecules, it's the work represented by the arrangement.

Similarly, bits are math, but a specific arrangement of bits can represent a work with copyright.

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