It id absurd to copyright a melody IMO. Consider flamenco. It has about 10 base styles each with a specific scale, melody (yes you are reading right!), beat, a

It id absurd to copyright a melody IMO. Consider flamenco. It has about 10 base styles each with a specific scale, melody (yes you are reading right!), beat, and structure. Then there are a variety of variations, that perhaps change the structure or mix in another melody. Between the base melody parts, there are falsetas which are unique melodies. These are also shared between guitarists. Some are considered popular and are untraceable, if their first appearance is near the time of the invention of recording devices. The lyrics are also shared between singers. In fact it is quite rare for a singer to compose any new lyrics of his own! Furthermore flamenco does not really have “songs” like pop music has. There is simply performance, where singers, guitarists, dancers and palmeros play. Never a specific song, but just one style so that the structnure is agreed and known. No one owns a verse, a melody or a dance move. Flamenco is a music world totally incompatible with the western notion of copyright, because it falls apart. Really the o ly thing that can be agreed on is that one particular recording of a performance can have copyright.