05-21-2023, 05:08 PM
There’s no such thing as thin copyright. Sega precludes anyone from decompiling their CRd code, and decomping is not necessary to operate the machine -playing games. Someone did, and the result were original but unlicensed software that could run on the platform. It held because monopolies, and also because there is some weight on the utilitarian constructs you talk about.
By the way, utilitarian constructs abound in music too. Cadences, half-cadences, chords, scales, rhythm patterns, etc.
And manipulating them is the most common composing technique.
If I’m a Drake junkie, hear his music all the time, and decide that I want to compose music in the style of Drake, I can do it, provided I don’t infringe on his copyright. I would be chastised socially for being an unoriginal copycat, but my copyright would hold.
But feeding AI the music of Drake, so a computer can make decisions like I did, would make any original work from it, music in the style of Drake, but chastised by… the copyright office? The music industry?
Anyway, they’re still figuring it out.
By the way, utilitarian constructs abound in music too. Cadences, half-cadences, chords, scales, rhythm patterns, etc.
And manipulating them is the most common composing technique.
If I’m a Drake junkie, hear his music all the time, and decide that I want to compose music in the style of Drake, I can do it, provided I don’t infringe on his copyright. I would be chastised socially for being an unoriginal copycat, but my copyright would hold.
But feeding AI the music of Drake, so a computer can make decisions like I did, would make any original work from it, music in the style of Drake, but chastised by… the copyright office? The music industry?
Anyway, they’re still figuring it out.