Well, so says a story reported on slashdot:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/stor ... lic-domain
"Two programmer-musicians wrote every possible MIDI melody in existence to a hard drive, copyrighted the whole thing, and then released it all to the public in an attempt to stop musicians from getting sued."
All possible melodies are now in public domain
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Re: All possible melodies are now in public domain
people need to tell slashdot nerds that just because they're into free software doesn't mean they know everything about copyright
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Re: All possible melodies are now in public domain
The idea is neat, but there's a whole lot of rhythmic permutations and multi-octave melodies that would be left out.
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Re: All possible melodies are now in public domain
I claim RFC 2795 establishes prior art.
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Re: All possible melodies are now in public domain
Yeah I also seem to recall someone doing something similar a few years ago. I bet it was even written up on Slashdot.
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Re: All possible melodies are now in public domain
I'm way ahead of that, here's a compact mathematical representation of all songs ever made (and all songs ever to be written), among a few other things:
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Re: All possible melodies are now in public domain
While it is strongly believed that e is disjunctive, I don’t believe it has yet been proven.
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