[almet]

This is a mathematical approach to music, and lacks (from my point of view) what is the mere essence of music : choice.

I understand why they want to take back the copyright on music, but they do so in such a geeky way that it seems completely useless to me.

Ultimately, musicians will pick good / cool melodies from this dataset, in the same way they do when in front of an instrument.

I might be missing the point ?

[svantana]

Of course, any digitally representable artform can be enumerated this way. What's special is that melodies have low enough entropy that it's actually practical to create them all, which isn't the case with (say) movies or novels. And that low entropy is also why spurious similarities occur, as when huge pop stars are accused of plagiarising some band with 200 soundcloud followers.

[marssaxman]

The point is that applying copyright law to music leads to absurd outcomes. It is a bad idea, and ought to be abolished.

[Kye]

What do you imagine would change if musicians couldn't protect their work?

As a musician, I think what would happen is the companies that abuse copyright now would keep abusing musicians, except now they can just take any song they like without compensating the person who made it.

[throwaway675309]

Does the same apply to other mediums? What if I generate all possible 64x64 images? (Extend that to every resolution in theory)

[viccuad]

I found that the TED talk linked on the article explains the issue colourfully, in case you haven't watched it.