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

[David Hart]

> The software is not a fixed score for the music. The music is not the score.
> There is no fixed score. Therefore there is nothing to claim copyright on as
> far as I understand.


There are volumes upon volumes of Jazz standards that call for
improvisation, and are all copyrighted.

Software that generates any music, in any way, *is* a fixed score for
the music, unless the software is re-writing itself.  This has been
pointed out already, but the use of a random number generator in some
software does not suddenly make it elusive enough to avoid current
copyright law.

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david.