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

[Andrei]

It seems to me that it would be perfectly logical for copyright to work
the same way for "generative" music as it does for "free" jazz or John
Cage's "chance" pieces, for example. Anything that consists of mostly
non pre-composed material.

- Andrei


> > Since the music produced by generative music systems is copyright
> > free, and therefore exempt from the usual public performance
> > licensing procedures
> 
> Like others I question this.  Music rights are not a simple issue, in
> the UK there are publishing rights, rights over the composition,
> recording rights, mechanical copying rights, copyright of lyrics,
> performance rights etc.  Software may be classified as a composition
> rather than recording, but I think it's untrue to say the running of
> software to generate music can't involve a public performance of a
> work.




		
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