Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits

Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by arghwhat on Friday February 28, 2020 @05:51AM (#22441923)

More correctly, it can produce every possible monophonic sequence of tones given infinite time, which in the article was further limited to monophonic 12-tone sequences across a single octave (any other limitations I missed?).

A melody contains more than a sequence of tones. The most heartless definition would at the very least include rhythm. For every sequence of tones they output, they only produce one out of hundreds of possible melodies for that sequence.

It is of course an interesting thought to consider the definition of decompression, but on the other hand, we should also limit the contributed idiocy to the bare minimum required to break the relevant idiotic rules.

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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by gammadens on Friday February 28, 2020 @07:19AM (#22442246)

Part of me wonders if the next step with this is some sort of DL model. I wonder if, trained on one set of melodies (defined in the intuitive sense) it would generate existing copyrighted melodies not in the training set.

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