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> They generated all songs of length n=12 with k=8 notes, this amounts to a staggering n^k = 8^12 = 68,719,476,736 unique songs.
> All these songs are 12 notes long and have their own MIDI file which adds even more overhead. The size of this dataset is huge, 1.2TB compressed using GZIP.
Kinda interesting project but very clickbait title. What does this have to do with DJing?
The TED talk was great, though he could have used more compelling examples than George Harrison and Sam Smith. Also great was Damien's Twitter response to the author on using the de Brujin approach- > We had initially considered a “de Bruijn” sequence. But if we were to use a single file, that would have down sides: > If someone infringes our work, it would only be a tiny percentage (0.0000000001%?) of the “work” — s…
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The point is that applying copyright law to music leads to absurd outcomes. It is a bad idea, and ought to be abolished.
Does the same apply to other mediums? What if I generate all possible 64x64 images? (Extend that to every resolution in theory)
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The point is that applying copyright law to music leads to absurd outcomes. It is a bad idea, and ought to be abolished.
Does the same apply to other mediums? What if I generate all possible 64x64 images? (Extend that to every resolution in theory)
We should pass a law to cap the maximum earnings from a single work of art to destroy the incentive for lawyers to strangle culture with predatory lawsuits. Ex. Once a work of song makes $10M it should just go into the public domain. Want to make more? Keep writing more songs.
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/in-the-jungle-inside-th...
Something that doesn't seem to have been discussed from the legal angle is this: if one can make any copyright claim about these datasets qualifying as "prior art", doesn't that then open itself up for trolls to claim that the datasets infringe on existing prior art? It's not like I can draw a pikachu, release it to public domain and make a slam dunk legal claim that all other pikachus are henceforth kosher. I think…
With code you really can do "a thousand monkeys at typewriters", but is it meaningful?
This is a similar concept of Library of Babel[0]. With code you really can do "a thousand monkeys at typewriters", but is it meaningful? [0] https://libraryofbabel.info/
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I mean, the game No Man’s Sky procedurally generates 18 quintillion planets but they hold a copyright on all of those planets, don’t they? They certainly haven’t explored all of the planets.
I'm assuming you mean the US, right? I was doing legal research on this, and funny enough there is an article that discusses this very issue: http://mttlr.org/2016/11/no-mans-skynet-copyright-in-procedu...