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Re:Show HN: Cloning a musical instrument from 16 seconds of ... by al2o3cr on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:43PM (#30473282) 

    Say you like a certain sound in a song and would
    like to use it as a starting point for your own
    sound patch.
As a bonus, you might be the Lucky Winner of a copyright suit that eventually establishes a whole new area of case law.

Yeah, it would be ridiculous and unreasonable - but so was "I copyrighted these three notes in a row so pay me naow" :(

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Re:Show HN: Cloning a musical instrument from 16 seconds of ... by xyzzy123 on Friday February 25, 2022 @07:14PM (#30474017)
I thought this was an interesting point so I looked had a look to see if timbre is considered a copyrightable element of a work.

It seems it's usually not: https://blogs.law.gwu.edu/mcir/2018/12/20/timbre/

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Re:Show HN: Cloning a musical instrument from 16 seconds of ... by abdljasser2 on Friday February 25, 2022 @07:44PM (#30474251)
Very interesting! Thank you for this.
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