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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by hobofan on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:45AM (#22441438)
I'm not sure if it would hold up legally anyway, but with it already being generated I can see it working out a bit better.

If you only provide the code as a means of generating any melody, you could just as well replace it with any music instrument and claim you can generate any melody with it.

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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by arketyp on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:55AM (#22441474)
Ad absurdum (or maybe not so much?), any universal Turing machine can be programmed to list every possible program, specifically the one generating every melody. So the copyright claim could then just as well point to Conway's game of life or rule 110.
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