Recording All the Melodies
Jason Kottke,
kottke.org,
Feb 17, 2020
Who are the creators of AI-generated art — programmers or machines? We may want to say that it's the programmers, or at least, the people who own to requipment. That's the precedent that was set when a court ruled that the human owner of a camera, not the monkey that took the photo, owned the copyright. But what would we say about this: Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin "designed and wrote a program to record every possible 8-note, 12-beat melody and released the results — all 68+ billion melodies, 2.6 terabytes of data — into the public domain." Here's all the music. What would we say if Disney had done it and copyrighted the melodies?
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