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This guy is nowhere near the “World’s most prolific DJ” I’ve never heard of Him, and I run in those circles. Interesting reading though.
Its amusing, it got me to click though and I was pleased by what I read
I'm surprised to learn that copyright doesn't take into account the length of notes, which to me is part of what makes melodies unique.
This may be a consequence of copyright law being developed in Europe. The European musical tradition is mostly concerned with harmony, and less with rhythm. A musical culture focusing on harmony would be most of the African traditions.
The reason this distinction matters is because I think its important to understand that not only European musical traditions will have equivalent rhythmic complexity but also other musical traditions will have equivalent harmonic complexity. Just because we don't have a great model of other musical traditions' harmony, does not mean they lack harmony. And vice versa. E.g. during Baroque era although temporal information was rarely denoted on paper (any more than 3 time, 4 time, tempo etc) musicians performing these pieces had to express a certain understanding of rhythm. Pieces were never played like MIDI, they always had rhythmic nuances.
I understand why they want to take back the copyright on music, but they do so in such a geeky way that it seems completely useless to me.
Ultimately, musicians will pick good / cool melodies from this dataset, in the same way they do when in front of an instrument.
I might be missing the point ?
This guy is nowhere near the “World’s most prolific DJ” I’ve never heard of Him, and I run in those circles. Interesting reading though.
I think prolific in this case is more the "Super Whizkid DJ Creates 100,000 Tracks in a Week" sense -- not in the sense that you may or may not have heard of them...
No knock on his accomplishments
I'm surprised to learn that copyright doesn't take into account the length of notes, which to me is part of what makes melodies unique.
An AI generated song machine would have to nail a lot more elements than just the melody notes to properly stop music copyright cases. In my view, a more interesting project that might be more effective in defusing lawsuits would be to try to catalog all of the musical tropes that define genres, then attempting to detect how common they are in that genre. In an ideal world, maybe this would be able to drive a metric of how similar specific two songs are vs. picking any two songs in that genre at random.
But if you can't copyright something that was created via automation ( https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2022/02/23/thaler-loses-ai-author... ), does this even matter?
Which makes a lot of sense to me - Someone had to set up the automation with the intent to create a copy writable work, and copywrite often has built in expirations based on a window of time after the death of the author. Hard to make that sane if you're listing a computer program as the author - when does it die?
Other projects in a similar spirit: Tom Johnson's Chord Catalog which organizes the 8,178 chords possible in a single octave of the piano: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chord_Catalogue James Whitehead's All Possible CDs: http://www.jliat.com/APCDS/index.html > This “thought” experiment although based on real “physical” objects can be treated as a simple mathematical object and so allows us to explore some of the…