[eu-gene] Psst...Wanna Buy an Algorithm? (Working Title)

[Antoine Schmitt]

I think that this is more complex than this.
When we released the "infiniteCD for unlimited music", a generative 
music CD-Rom in 1999, I contacted the SACEM (the author's right 
management society in France). They said that the only reason they 
will not manage the CD was that neither me nor the other artist 
(Vincent Epplay) where registered with them as musicians, but that 
they indeed have a royalty system for generative as well as for 
interactive musical artworks. I don't have more information on this, 
but I am sure that they did indeed think about it, if only because 
there is money to be made... ;-) And they have the best lawyers.

:::::::::14/10/05::::15:35 +0100::::Paul Brown:::::::::
>Thanks for the correction to my grammatical slip up. You are, of course,
>right.
>In answer to your question, because if the music generated by the music
>system is not fixed, i.e. recorded or written down in some form, no
>copyright exists in it. Because there is no copyright within the music
>created it falls out of the jurisdiction of performing, mechanical and
>phonographic right societies. They cannot pay royalties out on titles
>that have no copyright ownership on them.

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