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Thank you and yes, good question. The generated compositions are completely royalty free and can be used commercially - they do not require any attribution (tho

Thank you and yes, good question. The generated compositions are completely royalty free and can be used commercially - they do not require any attribution (though attribution always appreciated). I should add it to the website.

brudgers 8y ago
That sounds like a reasonable approach. I suggest making it explicit with a standard license such as CC0. https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...
- FigBug 8y ago
  Since the output of an algorithm can't be copyrighted, does it make an sense to apply a license to it? You can't waive rights that you don't have. > 503.03(a) Works-not originated by a human author. > In order to be entitled to copyright registration, a work must be the product of human authorship. Works produced by mechanical processes or random selection without any contribution by a human author are not registrable.
  - brudgers 8y ago
    without *any* contribution I'm not a lawyer. If I were, that phrase would give me a toehold or restless sleep depending on which side of the pile of money I was on...ok, actually if I was on the "hands on the money side", I would just advise avoiding the risk because that's what lawyers are expected to do. Or to put it another way, the argument that works created by the program are not copyrightable might tend to be more expensive than simply paying licensing fees in a business context. But again, I'm not a lawyer.
    - FigBug 8y ago
      If there is a contribution from a human, then it would be from the user who entered some parameters and ran the program, not the author of program. Therefore the copyright would belong to the user, which is fine. The only way the copyright could belong to the author of the program, is if the program contained copyrighted material that it copied directly into the output. For example, if the program contained 1000 prewritten melodies, and randomly selected one and copied it into the output.
      - brudgers 8y ago
        I'm not sure there is case law to support that argument. I am not sure that there isn't case law to support it either. Even if there is case law to support it, the circumstances in which the case law is helpful are somewhat likely to be more expensive than licensing other music more explicitly providing more conventional copyright permissions. For example, assuming the premise that the copyright belongs to the user in a case where two different users enter the same (or even similar) parameters then one of their compositions is probably copyright infringing on the other author -- or both are on a third even earlier author who entered the same or similar parameters. Again I am not a lawyer though it doesn't prevent me from thinking along the lines I have observed laywers thinking.
bneiluj 8y ago
Please add your bitcoin address. I'll donate :)
- andirk 8y ago
  With private keys please.
deltateam 8y ago
where is the download button? Although, I was going to figure out where it comes in on Chrome inspector regardless of this licensing discussion

brudgers 8y ago

That sounds like a reasonable approach. I suggest making it explicit with a standard license such as CC0. https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...

FigBug 8y ago
Since the output of an algorithm can't be copyrighted, does it make an sense to apply a license to it? You can't waive rights that you don't have. > 503.03(a) Works-not originated by a human author. > In order to be entitled to copyright registration, a work must be the product of human authorship. Works produced by mechanical processes or random selection without any contribution by a human author are not registrable.
- brudgers 8y ago
  without *any* contribution I'm not a lawyer. If I were, that phrase would give me a toehold or restless sleep depending on which side of the pile of money I was on...ok, actually if I was on the "hands on the money side", I would just advise avoiding the risk because that's what lawyers are expected to do. Or to put it another way, the argument that works created by the program are not copyrightable might tend to be more expensive than simply paying licensing fees in a business context. But again, I'm not a lawyer.
  - FigBug 8y ago
    If there is a contribution from a human, then it would be from the user who entered some parameters and ran the program, not the author of program. Therefore the copyright would belong to the user, which is fine. The only way the copyright could belong to the author of the program, is if the program contained copyrighted material that it copied directly into the output. For example, if the program contained 1000 prewritten melodies, and randomly selected one and copied it into the output.
    - brudgers 8y ago
      I'm not sure there is case law to support that argument. I am not sure that there isn't case law to support it either. Even if there is case law to support it, the circumstances in which the case law is helpful are somewhat likely to be more expensive than licensing other music more explicitly providing more conventional copyright permissions. For example, assuming the premise that the copyright belongs to the user in a case where two different users enter the same (or even similar) parameters then one of their compositions is probably copyright infringing on the other author -- or both are on a third even earlier author who entered the same or similar parameters. Again I am not a lawyer though it doesn't prevent me from thinking along the lines I have observed laywers thinking.

bneiluj 8y ago

Please add your bitcoin address. I'll donate :)

andirk 8y ago
With private keys please.

deltateam 8y ago

where is the download button? Although, I was going to figure out where it comes in on Chrome inspector regardless of this licensing discussion