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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by hiptobecubic on Monday July 05, 2021 @10:08PM (#27743582)
That's nonsense though. If we filter out the non-copyrightable parts of music we'd remove all the pitches, eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes...

We could remove the non-copyrightable parts of text works too. Just take out all the basic building blocks of language like verbs, nouns, stop words...

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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by bdowling on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @05:40AM (#27746044)
Individual notes, like individual words, are not copyrightable. Longer sequences, however, can be if they are original.
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