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Re:Ed Sheeran Demonstrates How Copyright Is Destroying Music... by SideQuark on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @04:07AM (#35871468)
That ignores rhythm and chords which are important and distinct. Also given current court rulings stating such non-creative computer generated things are not copyrightable, it's irrelevant to copyrighted music.
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Re:Ed Sheeran Demonstrates How Copyright Is Destroying Music... by happymellon on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @06:44AM (#35872355)
Just because they aren't copyrightable doesn't mean that we can use them as prior art if we publish them all, does it?
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Re:Ed Sheeran Demonstrates How Copyright Is Destroying Music... by SideQuark on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @04:44PM (#35880144)
Not generally. Prior art works like that for patents. For copyright the courts generally allow copyrights on things created independently of an existing item. So it's likely the whole exercise is worthless at affecting any future copyrights.
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