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

[alex]

Hi Paul,

On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 14:23 +0100, Paul Brown wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. All I can suggest regarding the copyright issue
> is that you take a look at (you are UK based right?) the Copyright
> Designs And Patents Act 1988, Copyright and Related Rights Regulations
> 2003 and take further advice from a lawyer if you need further
> clarification. PRS have a legal referral service where various UK
> lawyers have agreed to give advice to PRS members, without charge, for
> up to one hour at the first meeting.

I am UK base, but no thanks, I'm happy with my understanding for now,
which remains that music rights are applicable to generative music.
Those rights are listed and detailed here:

  http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/DocsRepository/3752/Introduction%20to%20Copyright_%20DS_26-04-04.pdf

... and do not centre around rights over recordings as you suggest.  If
you never record a song that you've written, it's still your song, and
you can still get money from the collection societies if other people
perform it.  Running a program to generate music would clearly come
under "performing, playing or showing" the work in public.  In any case,
you can record generative music, so I really don't understand your
position.

However if you have consulted the PRS lawyers while researching your
paper I'd be interested to learn of their response, and happy to correct
my understanding.


alex