All possible melodies are now in public domain

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All possible melodies are now in public domain

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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."
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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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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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I claim RFC 2795 establishes prior art.
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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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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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While it is strongly believed that e is disjunctive, I don’t believe it has yet been proven.
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