All possible melodies are now in public domain

[AJOwens]

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."

[fluffy]

people need to tell slashdot nerds that just because they're into free software doesn't mean they know everything about copyright

[sleepysilverdoor]

The idea is neat, but there's a whole lot of rhythmic permutations and multi-octave melodies that would be left out.

[irwin]

I claim RFC 2795 establishes prior art.

[fluffy]

Yeah I also seem to recall someone doing something similar a few years ago. I bet it was even written up on Slashdot.

[jast]

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:
e

[irwin]

While it is strongly believed that e is disjunctive, I don’t believe it has yet been proven.