The consensus here on this kind of issues these days seems to be that it’s not Google’s fault. However if their rights model would make a correct and consistent distinction between works and performance, they would know that there is no right holder to the work (melody) they’ve identified. It’s not impossible that there are copyright trolls spamming their database with performances of public domain works and claiming both type of rights, but than they should have a system to flag those as inconsistent with known public domain material. They have the money to clean up their data, it’s just not as fun as iterating on their audio to performance and audio to work ML systems, which seem to work fine
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