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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by paulddraper on Friday February 28, 2020 @09:04AM (#22442805)
> just 12^100

At the risk of getting stuck in a loop: "No rhythms, no meter, no tempo, melodies are longer than 12 notes, it's diatonic, single octave, no concept of underlying harmony"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22441366

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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by ajuc on Friday February 28, 2020 @09:12AM (#22442854)
I was overestimating, I even mentioned it.

> and if you only care about melody it's overestimation

And they did it that way because courts don't worry about the exact tempo, meter and rhythm when ruling on plagiarism.

There was a guy trying to copyright A CHORD :)

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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by paulddraper on Friday February 28, 2020 @09:24AM (#22442953)
> exact tempo, meter and rhythm

That much is true.

> a guy trying to copyright A CHORD

IIRC he failed miserably.

A better example would be the (until recently) coprighted song "Happy Birthday." [1]

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/happy-birthda...

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