The problem with that analogy is that the complexity of melodies and sentences are far from equivalent. A melody is much closer to the complexity of a word. Cop

The problem with that analogy is that the complexity of melodies and sentences are far from equivalent. A melody is much closer to the complexity of a word. Copyright trolls have been getting away with suing artist who have created original works due to a small section of melody sounding too similar to another work. To use the same analogy, that is like an author claiming copyright infringement, because you used a word that uses too many of the same letters as their own. possible 12 beat melodies (1 octave) = 8^12 = ~6.9e10 possible 8 letter words = 26^8 = ~2.1e11 (Assume there are 170,000 known words.) possible 12 word sentences = (1.7e5)^12 = ~5.8e62 Edit: Used the correct numbers from the article and updated the word/sentence length to be comparable.