This might be interesting to y'all

[per.du]

"A musician and lawyer has used an algorithm to generate every possible melody in an attempt to end music copyright lawsuit claims.

Working with programmer Noah Rubin, Damien Riehl built software capable of generating 300,000 melodies each second, creating a catalogue of 68 billion 8-note melodies.

The melodies were then copyrighted and released into the public domain in the hope of stifling litigious musicians."

All the Music LLC – Helping Songwriters Make All of Their Music

allthemusic.info

Musician uses algorithm to generate every possible melody to prevent copyright lawsuits

Catalogue of 68 billion tunes contains 'every melody that's ever existed and ever can exist'

www.independent.co.uk

 

[HeavyDrama]

Seems a bit crude.
heard about it from this vid which goes into some of the obvious thoughts about rhythm and none-western tuning etc



edit: ...

 

[per.du]

Seems a bit crude.

agreed.

 

[Rustee Frequency]

That video lead me directly to Nina Paley's Ted talk about Copyright, and the mess that it's in. Pretty much the point I got out of the video you posted.

 

[Rustee Frequency]

Also her movie-musical "Seder Masochism" is genius. Here my favorite part (and one of my favorite songs)

 

[JoaGymshoe]

Kendrick Lamar Sued for Illegally Sampling Bill Withers

The rapper and his label TDE are named as defendants in the suit filed by a music company that claims he sampled Withers' 1975 song without their permission on 'I Do This' off his 2009 EP.

www.aceshowbiz.com

hmm, article itself doesn't wanna ' unfold '
it's about Kendrick Lamar sampling Bill Withers