Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits

Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by Nasrudith on Friday February 28, 2020 @07:40AM (#22442358)

The garbage data makes all of the difference. Said accidental generation would make it legal as the only way to pick out the data is to know it already. Otherwise what separates your real name from "Name: Seymoure Butts Sexual Orientation: Mayonnaise".

The fact there is no garbage data at all shows that they are doing judgement on a nakedly wrong level in music - even by the standards of copyright.

Selling "Harry Potter but with the capitalization inverted" to dodge book copyright nor even "this key and this very long block of data which happen to decrypt to the complete works of JK Rowling, don't decrypt because that would be infringement wink wink nudge nudge".

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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by goto11 on Saturday February 29, 2020 @05:05AM (#22449906)

I would presume to vast majority of the automatically generate music is basically garbage?

If we say that music (and really any information) is just numbers which can be enumerated automatically, then surely the creative action is finding and picking a number which is actual interesting out of the infinite sea of random garbage.

My point is that framing music as "just numbers" does not disprove that producing a song is a unique creative work. There may be valid arguments against copyright, but this one isn't.

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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by akhosravian on Saturday February 29, 2020 @12:57AM (#22449183)

How about selling grape juice with a warning on how to not ferment it to avoid prohibition laws?

https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/how-wine-bricks-saved-the-u-s...

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