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

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In certain countries you cannot sell-away-your-rights to these type of 
things

And arent most label concerned with signing recordings, not the 
compositions
themselves

On dimanche, oct 16, 2005, at 15:20 Europe/Paris, alex wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 12:43 +0100, Rob Myers wrote:
>> So assuming that a generative *performance* has no fixed form and is
>> live, you couldn't claim copyright on it.
>
> Ah, then I think this is where the disagreement lies.  In my view, the
> sourcecode is the fixed form of the composition, which is performed by 
> a
> computer.  The sourcecode is the musical score, it just happens to have
> if statements as well as loop constructs.
>
> I think to state otherwise is to deny the programmer their rightful 
> role
> as a musician.
>
> However, problems comes for me when I consider the relationship between
> a musical work and a musical style...  A work is an instance of a 
> style,
> and both can be described in sourcecode.  There's danger here - it 
> would
> be too easy to sign away rights to your whole musical style by 
> accident,
> while selling rights to a particular composition.
>
> I guess the trick is to keep your musical style in separate libraries
> from the code relating to a particular work, and making the boundary
> clear in contracts...
>
>
> alex
>
>
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