Wednesday, 26 February 2020

Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain

quote [ "Under copyright law, numbers are facts, and under copyright law, facts either have thin copyright, almost no copyright, or no copyright at all," Riehl explained in the talk. "So maybe if these numbers have existed since the beginning of time and we're just plucking them out, maybe melodies are just math, which is just facts, which is not copyrightable." ]

I was just talking about the possibility of something like this 5 days ago. The fun thing is I was talking about trying to implement something like this on old SE more than 15 years ago but storage capabilities were far out of reach. Technological advancements makes scarcity of IP obsolete. This is what post scarcity looks like. This same brute force concept can be applied to images, movies, books code, etc. AI will simply streamline the process more efficiently.

TLDR; IP is now officially theft of The Commons. Though I'm sure a court case will tell us that actually math is illegal or something. Again.
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[by steele@5:56pmGMT]

Comments

biblebeltdrunk said @ 6:39pm GMT on 26th Feb
Even as a pretty extreme copyright minamalist, i don't feel like this is a particularly good argument. If you are generating every possible combination faster then it takes to even experience them then I don't think that item should count as a creative work.

I think the stronger argument is to just say tech has given us a much greater ability to enter a market & capitalize on works. As such its no longer in the public's intrest to give such an extended term for copyright.
mechanical contrivance said @ 6:42pm GMT on 26th Feb [Score:2]
It was never in the public's interest to have such a long copyright term. It's about allowing companies to continue making money off of old works. In other words, it's about making rich people richer.
mechanical contrivance said @ 6:40pm GMT on 26th Feb
I doubt this will have any real effect.
steele said[1] @ 7:03pm GMT on 26th Feb
Oh, I doubt it either. It's just another demonstration of how a scarcity based model fails as technology advances. But you can rest assured as soon as a corporation or conglomerate of corporations figure out a way to benefit from technology like this we'll all suddenly have to get in line.

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