[damienriehl]

I'm The Atlantic article's subject. To date, we have created — and copyrighted — about 400 billion (400,000,000,000) melodies. Here are descriptions:

http://allthemusic.info/faqs/#What_have_you_created_so_far

All of the melodies could be filed with the U.S. Copyright Office — as a "compilation" — much like a music album.

[kastnerkyle]

I've been trying to follow your project since I heard about it - but hadn't read the link you posted here. Really thorough, really good description of many of the quagmires (with prior cases) of melody and music copyright. Thanks!

[dredmorbius]

Has copyright been defended against any of those?

I'm concerned about the "original authorship" requirement.